Sunflower Hour
@sunflowerh0ur.bsky.social
Like long walks on the beach, gardening and democracy. Vaccinated and caffeinated. X Hellsite Escapee. I’m here because the amazing Bluesky community keeps me sane. Thank you!
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Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
September 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
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They tell voters what they should be concerned about. They don’t bother to listen to what they are concerned about. We are trying to force a narrative on people who only need to look around or check their bank account to see what concerns them.
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Why Can't We Just Listen
Telling them their concerns instead of listening to their concerns
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September 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
They tell voters what they should be concerned about. They don’t bother to listen to what they are concerned about. We are trying to force a narrative on people who only need to look around or check their bank account to see what concerns them.
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Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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Ask your Representatives why unelected oligarch Elon Musk is entitled to know your Social Security number?
Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121.
Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Ask your Representatives why unelected oligarch Elon Musk is entitled to know your Social Security number?
Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121.
Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121.
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Eggs UP
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
February 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Eggs UP
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
Taxes UP
Gas UP
RX drugs UP
Dow Jones DOWN
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block.
Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.
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Punxsutawney Phil predicts four more years of fascism.
February 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Punxsutawney Phil predicts four more years of fascism.
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The world’s richest man who no one elected just walked into the US Treasury, stole your Social Security number, and Trump let him. You deserve to know why this is happening - call your member of Congress and Senators (202) 224-3121 and ask why.
February 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The world’s richest man who no one elected just walked into the US Treasury, stole your Social Security number, and Trump let him. You deserve to know why this is happening - call your member of Congress and Senators (202) 224-3121 and ask why.
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A message to the US Senate: America is watching. Patel, Gabbard, and RFK are more than just unfit. They are a danger to our country, and to our people's safety. Use your vote to protect the people you represent. History will remember your choice.
A Message to the US Senate
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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January 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A message to the US Senate: America is watching. Patel, Gabbard, and RFK are more than just unfit. They are a danger to our country, and to our people's safety. Use your vote to protect the people you represent. History will remember your choice.
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If Mitch McConnell was the Senate minority right now, he would’ve shut this shit down.
Jesus Jumping Christ on a cracker.
Schumer has never understood that you don’t have power unless you use power.
Jesus Jumping Christ on a cracker.
Schumer has never understood that you don’t have power unless you use power.
Chuck Schumer’s advice for Democrats staring at a long two or more years out of power: Just wait.
“Trump will screw up,” he tells Semafor in an interview.
“Trump will screw up,” he tells Semafor in an interview.
‘Trump will screw up’: Schumer plots the Democratic comeback
The Senate minority leader talked to Semafor about his approach to the president’s polarizing uses of executive power.
www.semafor.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If Mitch McConnell was the Senate minority right now, he would’ve shut this shit down.
Jesus Jumping Christ on a cracker.
Schumer has never understood that you don’t have power unless you use power.
Jesus Jumping Christ on a cracker.
Schumer has never understood that you don’t have power unless you use power.
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Honestly, there’s no one he hates more. His critics he understands and even respects. It’s the hypnotized mouth-breathers he really hates.
Trump hates the rube who voted for him. I mean I tried to warn y’all 🤷🏻♀️
Trump just took down rural.gov—the main site helping small towns and rural communities access funding to create jobs & run critical services.
Democrats made the largest investments in rural communities since the New Deal, Trump abandoned them in less than a month.
Democrats made the largest investments in rural communities since the New Deal, Trump abandoned them in less than a month.
February 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Honestly, there’s no one he hates more. His critics he understands and even respects. It’s the hypnotized mouth-breathers he really hates.
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This is the way.
SCHATZ: “.. I will oppose unanimous consent. I will vote no. I will do maximal delays until this is resolved.”
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Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back
The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
www.wsj.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is the way.
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The White House is for sale, folks. The 1% are going to feast!
President Biden warned in his farewell address that an oligarchy is taking shape in the U.S. As President-elect Trump returns to the White House, billionaires and multimillionaires are flocking to the city where power has been more important than money, but is now deeply intertwined with it.
A Trump Oligarchy Is Moving to Washington, and Buying Up Prime Addresses
Billionaires and multimillionaires are flocking to a city where power has been more important than money, but is now deeply intertwined with it.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The White House is for sale, folks. The 1% are going to feast!
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So Vivek Ramaswamy is being pushed to step away from DOGE before it even begins?
Guess future President Elon Musk really hated the idea of having a babysitter to share the credit with.
Bye Vivek.
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Guess future President Elon Musk really hated the idea of having a babysitter to share the credit with.
Bye Vivek.
👋
January 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
So Vivek Ramaswamy is being pushed to step away from DOGE before it even begins?
Guess future President Elon Musk really hated the idea of having a babysitter to share the credit with.
Bye Vivek.
👋
Guess future President Elon Musk really hated the idea of having a babysitter to share the credit with.
Bye Vivek.
👋
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Rank and file doge staff is killing me
January 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Rank and file doge staff is killing me
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THIS ⤵️
The TrumpCoin is the democratization of kleptocracy.
January 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
THIS ⤵️
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Donald Trump Jr. implied TikTok was worse than Chinese spy balloons and called out Twitter/IG/Facebook for harvesting data.
Now Don Jr. and his dad support reinstating TikTok and have invited Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg to the inauguration.
Clown. Show.
Now Don Jr. and his dad support reinstating TikTok and have invited Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg to the inauguration.
Clown. Show.
January 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Donald Trump Jr. implied TikTok was worse than Chinese spy balloons and called out Twitter/IG/Facebook for harvesting data.
Now Don Jr. and his dad support reinstating TikTok and have invited Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg to the inauguration.
Clown. Show.
Now Don Jr. and his dad support reinstating TikTok and have invited Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg to the inauguration.
Clown. Show.
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Kevin Sorbo now supports TikTok.
Dollar Store Thor wanted it banned in 2022.
Dollar Store Thor wanted it banned in 2022.
January 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Kevin Sorbo now supports TikTok.
Dollar Store Thor wanted it banned in 2022.
Dollar Store Thor wanted it banned in 2022.
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ICYMI:
Trump this morning proposing that TikTok becomes a state-sponsored social media app to pump out propaganda.
Oh, and if TikTok is spying on us, does that mean the US government will be spying on us, too?
Trump this morning proposing that TikTok becomes a state-sponsored social media app to pump out propaganda.
Oh, and if TikTok is spying on us, does that mean the US government will be spying on us, too?
January 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ICYMI:
Trump this morning proposing that TikTok becomes a state-sponsored social media app to pump out propaganda.
Oh, and if TikTok is spying on us, does that mean the US government will be spying on us, too?
Trump this morning proposing that TikTok becomes a state-sponsored social media app to pump out propaganda.
Oh, and if TikTok is spying on us, does that mean the US government will be spying on us, too?
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Republican Senator Tom Cotton, the one who blocked the Democrats' proposed extension on banning TikTok on Wednesday, is now throwing down with Donald Trump saying he has "no legal basis for any kind of 'extension.'"
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January 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Republican Senator Tom Cotton, the one who blocked the Democrats' proposed extension on banning TikTok on Wednesday, is now throwing down with Donald Trump saying he has "no legal basis for any kind of 'extension.'"
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Lots of institutions and leaders have capitulated. In the days to come, even more will bend a knee. They want it seem inevitable or smart. It is not.
That is why I wrote that those of us committed to standing up against Trump are on our own. But, together we can fight and when we fight we will win.
That is why I wrote that those of us committed to standing up against Trump are on our own. But, together we can fight and when we fight we will win.
We Are on Our Own
From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.
www.democracydocket.com
January 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Lots of institutions and leaders have capitulated. In the days to come, even more will bend a knee. They want it seem inevitable or smart. It is not.
That is why I wrote that those of us committed to standing up against Trump are on our own. But, together we can fight and when we fight we will win.
That is why I wrote that those of us committed to standing up against Trump are on our own. But, together we can fight and when we fight we will win.
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It’s disappointing for sure. 😞
Tomorrow, my focus will be on the legacy and teachings of Martin Luther King Jr.
Tomorrow, my focus will be on the legacy and teachings of Martin Luther King Jr.
January 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It’s disappointing for sure. 😞
Tomorrow, my focus will be on the legacy and teachings of Martin Luther King Jr.
Tomorrow, my focus will be on the legacy and teachings of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The CEO of TikTok is expected to be at Trump’s inauguration. And Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. And X’s Elon Musk. And Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. And Google's Sundar Pichai. The last four have already kissed the ring — they have already shown deference to Trump.
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Reagan had Hostages. Trump has TikTok.
TikTok. It’s not about dancing.
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January 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The CEO of TikTok is expected to be at Trump’s inauguration. And Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. And X’s Elon Musk. And Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. And Google's Sundar Pichai. The last four have already kissed the ring — they have already shown deference to Trump.
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