Joanne Walsh
@rareamphibean.bsky.social
Lifelong Jersey girl. Fan of the Pine Barrens, democracy, and the separation of church and state. I keep a clean house, therefore I support eradicating ICE.
My pronunciations are:
Anti fascist
The Gulf of Mexico
The Kennedy Center
The Nobel Peace Prize
My pronunciations are:
Anti fascist
The Gulf of Mexico
The Kennedy Center
The Nobel Peace Prize
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Hey @schumer.senate.gov - you still going to help these evil bastards? What about you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ???? You guys need to resign. It’s time. You’ve failed
January 24, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Hey @schumer.senate.gov - you still going to help these evil bastards? What about you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ???? You guys need to resign. It’s time. You’ve failed
Until the full cache of Epstein documentation is released I’m simply going to assume that ANY PERSON in politics, media, or corporate governance who excuses, protects, promotes, or bubble wraps this regime is personally guilty of the worst crimes imaginable and is merely saving their own skin.
January 19, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Until the full cache of Epstein documentation is released I’m simply going to assume that ANY PERSON in politics, media, or corporate governance who excuses, protects, promotes, or bubble wraps this regime is personally guilty of the worst crimes imaginable and is merely saving their own skin.
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I think you need to put at least as much effort into earning forgiveness as you did into the thing you’re asking forgiveness for. That is, if you were an enthusiastic piece of shit, you don’t just get to say sorry and sit back. I expect some serious gumption before I’ll believe you’re genuine.
January 18, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I think you need to put at least as much effort into earning forgiveness as you did into the thing you’re asking forgiveness for. That is, if you were an enthusiastic piece of shit, you don’t just get to say sorry and sit back. I expect some serious gumption before I’ll believe you’re genuine.
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Four GOP Senators.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
I can't repeat this enough.
I've said this before and I'll say it again.
It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.
It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.
January 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Four GOP Senators.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
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When women do it, it’s smugness. If it had been a dude in survivalist cosplay toting an AR-15 it’d be manly patriotism.
Fox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”
January 14, 2026 at 3:36 AM
When women do it, it’s smugness. If it had been a dude in survivalist cosplay toting an AR-15 it’d be manly patriotism.
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War powers, ACA extensions, and ICE accountability.
Here are 3️⃣ things to follow this week.
Here are 3️⃣ things to follow this week.
January 13, 2026 at 10:24 PM
War powers, ACA extensions, and ICE accountability.
Here are 3️⃣ things to follow this week.
Here are 3️⃣ things to follow this week.
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Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations
January 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations
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I'm really fucking tired of national media putting it on Democrats to 'turn down the temperature' by not using the word fuck when there are Trumper ICE goons kitted out like they're going into Fallujah raiding day cares.
January 11, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I'm really fucking tired of national media putting it on Democrats to 'turn down the temperature' by not using the word fuck when there are Trumper ICE goons kitted out like they're going into Fallujah raiding day cares.
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I toured RWJ Barnabas Health Center in Newark today to discuss the importance of healthcare that meets people where they are.
Providing support in social services, food insecurity, and safe housing should all be elements of our care system. There’s no health without them.
Providing support in social services, food insecurity, and safe housing should all be elements of our care system. There’s no health without them.
January 10, 2026 at 11:18 PM
I toured RWJ Barnabas Health Center in Newark today to discuss the importance of healthcare that meets people where they are.
Providing support in social services, food insecurity, and safe housing should all be elements of our care system. There’s no health without them.
Providing support in social services, food insecurity, and safe housing should all be elements of our care system. There’s no health without them.
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"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*."
—Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale.
—Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale.
January 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM
"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*."
—Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale.
—Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale.
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Trump’s doing mob boss politics again — this time on a global scale.
He doesn’t have a plan for what comes next, just another half-baked scheme to help his friends get richer.
He doesn’t have a plan for what comes next, just another half-baked scheme to help his friends get richer.
January 6, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Trump’s doing mob boss politics again — this time on a global scale.
He doesn’t have a plan for what comes next, just another half-baked scheme to help his friends get richer.
He doesn’t have a plan for what comes next, just another half-baked scheme to help his friends get richer.
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Alliances are soy and for girls, real men die face down in a ditch as the Reichstag burns behind them
January 6, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Alliances are soy and for girls, real men die face down in a ditch as the Reichstag burns behind them
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Exactly the response I expected from Mark Kelly:
January 5, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Exactly the response I expected from Mark Kelly:
George Carlin was right about almost everything.
January 5, 2026 at 5:11 PM
George Carlin was right about almost everything.
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like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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Watch
December 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Watch
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This week, I spoke with @vanityfair.com about my father's Alzheimer's diagnosis, becoming a caregiver, and my vision for a national caregiving movement.
Together, we can choose to be a country where care is foundational. Read more here. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...
Together, we can choose to be a country where care is foundational. Read more here. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...
Middle-Aged Americans Are Drowning. Andy Kim Wants to Throw Them a Life Raft
The New Jersey senator goes deep with ‘Vanity Fair’ about his father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and why he thinks a focus on caregivers in the sandwich generation could bring the country back from the br...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This week, I spoke with @vanityfair.com about my father's Alzheimer's diagnosis, becoming a caregiver, and my vision for a national caregiving movement.
Together, we can choose to be a country where care is foundational. Read more here. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...
Together, we can choose to be a country where care is foundational. Read more here. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...
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Like too many Americans, I have been a victim of our broken healthcare system.
We have a chance to fix it when extending the ACA tax credits comes up for a vote in the Senate in the coming days. We have to get this done for the American people.
We have a chance to fix it when extending the ACA tax credits comes up for a vote in the Senate in the coming days. We have to get this done for the American people.
December 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Like too many Americans, I have been a victim of our broken healthcare system.
We have a chance to fix it when extending the ACA tax credits comes up for a vote in the Senate in the coming days. We have to get this done for the American people.
We have a chance to fix it when extending the ACA tax credits comes up for a vote in the Senate in the coming days. We have to get this done for the American people.
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“Two dolls and a couple of pencils. Give Grandma one slipper — you can give her the other one next Christmas. I am the affordability president.”
December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“Two dolls and a couple of pencils. Give Grandma one slipper — you can give her the other one next Christmas. I am the affordability president.”
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"Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships. Remember: AI can never replace the unique gift that you are to the world."
Pope Leo spearheading the resistance to this grift.
Pope Leo spearheading the resistance to this grift.
December 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships. Remember: AI can never replace the unique gift that you are to the world."
Pope Leo spearheading the resistance to this grift.
Pope Leo spearheading the resistance to this grift.
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
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