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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋

@rosegardenerwi.bsky.social

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🦋 Just a female, white, suburban, baby-boomer who is progressive (as in Bernie Sanders, AOC and Pramila Jayapal progressive). Within me competes both a romantic poet and a snarky cynic... Follow me and I'll follow you

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · Jan 23

On Monday I pulled MLK's "Strength to Love" off my bookcase to read one of his sermons on his day. And I've decided to keep it on the table by my chair going forward. In the days and years ahead, I will be reading MLK regularly ... as the dirty road ahead of us unfolds... I need his wisdom...

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 2d

RIP CBS

The death knell has begun for the network which gave us:

* Walter Cronkite
* Edward R. Murrow
* Mike Wallace
* Harry Reasoner
* Dan Rather

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 4d

RE: If Democrats were smart (laughsob) they would ....

The operative word being "IF...".🤷

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 4d

Actually Lake Michigan is a Great Lake. And using the Great Lake network, it's considered a border. Has been for years.

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 5d

Would it be possible for you to post videos of full town halls on YouTube? YouTube videos are much easier for the rest of us to share. We can help spread the word, but we need videos that cover the entirety of your townhall and we need YouTubes.

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 5d

Re: GOP blames government shutdown on health care for undocumented people. That's false

It's more than false @npr.org, it's a straight-up lie. Call it what it is.🤷🏻‍♀️

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 6d

Should anyone want to download the 3D model and print.... here's the link.

Feel free to share far and wide
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www.printables.com/model/142634...

Trump & Epstein - 'Best Friends Forever' Statue (miniature) by The Secret Handshake | Download free STL model | Printables.com

www.printables.com

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 6d

😅🤣

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 6d

@altnps.bsky.social

Genuine thanks going up to the NPS Ranger who authorized this. May s/he remain safe and employed. 🙏 💗

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 6d

".....We are up with the Parks Department knowledge and our permitting ranger's thumbs up.... Genuine shout out and thanks to the [NPS] ranger we've been working with at the Parks Department. They are a true believer in free speech in the face of a lot of noise."

www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Trump-Epstein statue returns to the National Mall

The group "The Secret Handshake" told WUSA9 the statue had been put back up on display Thursday.

www.wusa9.com

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 6d

When you have to say you're "irresistible to women" & an "alpha male" you are neither.

It's called over compensation and self-respecting women spot it miles away. You present as strutting 13-year-old boys who have never grown up.🤷🏻‍♀️

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 7d

No one is safe.... absolutely no person is safe.🤷🏻‍♀️

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 8d

And his ratings show it.🤷🏻‍♀️

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 8d

@schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social please take note of the tactics of tRump mob. This includes tRump himself, Mike Johnson, John Thune 🤷

".... We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill..."

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 9d

And it certainly doesn't apply to Palestine. 🤷🏻‍♀️

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 9d

"We need to let the world know this is happening...."

Hiw sad is it that those words are spoken from the "land of the free".... the "Beacon Of Light To Other Nations"???😢

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 10d

Logic would support your premise (and you're probably right). But let's not forget that tRump's standard operating procedure is to distract, distract, distract. So... he nay us Adams as a way to distract the media from budget battles.🤷🏻‍♀️

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 10d

Don't worry.... they're sending their "thoughts and prayers". That's all that's required. 🤷🏻‍♀️

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 10d

Coates last paragraph reminds me of something similar MLK said regarding shattered dreams.

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · Jan 23

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 10d

Jeffries is just as thrilled as tRump is that Adams is out. With Adam's down Cuomo now has a better chance. And, in the end, whether Dem or Repub, both tRump and Jeffries will choose big$ over Mamdani's appeal with everyday working voters.🤷🏻‍♀️

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 10d

And.... Tomorrow Eric Adams will be standing next to tRump as he announces Eric's new position in the fascist clown show regime. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 10d

Impotent

There is no other word to even begin describing this man and his feckless "leadership".🤷🏻‍♀️

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 10d

Well....well...well...

Wait until the Comey defense team puts McCabe on the courtroom witness stand. The DOJ case will fall like a house of cards.🤣😅

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 11d

AND..... the probability that pretty-boy Mike Johnson is on the list is.... 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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... I'll take "over 90%" for $500, Alex🤷🏻‍♀️

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 12d

Tell every brown person who has been assaulted by armed, masked, secret police that "right-wing terror attacks plunged".🤷🏻‍♀️

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Right-wing terror attacks plunged in 2025, while left-wing attacks ticked up: study

From 2011 through 2024, an average of 20 right-wing terror incidents took place each year, compared to an average of nearly three left-wing incidents annually.

www.nbcnews.com

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