Helen

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Former NYer living in SoCal. RN, dog lover.
#BLM #BlueCrew #LGTBQ+ ally. #POTS

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no thoughts just lake

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How do we adjust to a world where major democracies have long-term viable fascist parties? It feels like we'll just be having existential election after existential election, and we have to win every time whereas they only have to win once.

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I follow back like-minded Dems 🌊🌊🌊🏵️🌺Let's build up Bluesky together. Leave a heart or comment so we can find and follow each other. 👊🫶 Turn up the volume. Amplify like minded people. Post. Like. Comment. Repost. Share across platforms. Let's deliver a crushing defeat in November! 🫂💙🌊🫂💙🌊🫂💙🌊🫂

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More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?

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Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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National Politician Don't Kill a Dog Challenge

Bizarre photo surfaces of RFK and ‘barbecued dog’: ‘The f--- is wrong with this man?’www.nj.com "Kennedy told the person, who was traveling to Asia, that he might enjoy a restaurant in Korea that served dog on the menu."

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President Joe Biden pardoned potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, saying that he is “righting an historic wrong” to clear the way for them to regain lost benefits. apnews.com/article/bide...

Biden pardons potentially thousands of ex-service members convicted under now-repealed gay sex banapnews.com President Joe Biden is pardoning potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex.

What I look like scrolling social media

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good morning 🌄

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Who called them ex-girlfriends and not yesterbaes.

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But here's the thing, and I'll say it as someone who monitors and analyzes media: the bad media coverage isn't going to let up. It's going to drive his poll numbers down and it's going to be relentless. There's blood in the water, and maybe it's not fair, but that's the reality right now.

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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Don't stop to stand with #Ukraine, and learn how to do it. These are some wise words I always try to remember before getting totally exhausted: "If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit." 💙💛

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In olden times we had to write our skeets on rocks and throw them at our enemies

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Russia is not diddling around with this election, Trump and his bros are catastrophically stupid and inept. hilarilty will ensue. without russia, they can't win. They wouldn't have last time. Unless no one votes. If you don't vote i will personally kick your ass.

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me: sorry i can’t come out i have plans my plans:

make a band meatier: Bull-y Idol

make a band meatier: Cow Cult

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No one is coming to save us. We need to build working-class power, we need to build a movement that can crush fascism, we need to organize like never before. Because we don't have a democracy to save, but we do have one to build from the ground up. www.jphilll.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court just legalized Presidential crimewww.jphilll.com Fighting back is more important than ever.

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Does it not blow your mind that Biden got us the biggest win in the history of EVER and has set record after record in the performance of his duties & people just can't wait to toss him overboard?

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Coexist

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Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow and his family's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. See how this works?

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Make it so France! apple.news/AQMHwTcoHTEa...

French left-wing coalition projected to beat the far right in surprise second-round resultapple.news In an unexpected second-round result, the New Popular Front is projected to finish ahead of Marine Le Pen’s far-right party in French parliamentary elections, according to an IPSOS estimate.

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Their voices need to be heard as a lesson & warning. Though in France, this applies & connects to the United States. Both countries fought racism. Both countries are facing the same political extremism. Thanks @the-jaguarr.bsky.social for sharing this article. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

‘We’ve been there’: French Resistance fighters speak out against rule by the far rightwww.france24.com In the run-up to the second round of legislative elections in France, former members of the resistance to Nazi rule are voicing their concerns over the possibility of a far-right government taking pow...

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My first snort-laugh in awhile

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Kyle Griffin Bishop J. Louis Felton, sermon, next to Biden in Philadelphia: "I don't know why it is that you want to make an issue of the president & his condition w/stammering & not being able at certain times to bring forth words while another person lies fluently & you never challenge his lies."

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Ghislaine Maxwell testified she brought a 14 year-old girl to Mar-A-Lardo.

*blink blink*

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Remember when the MAGA cult was screaming for the release of the Epstein files and now that they’re out with Trump’s name all over them, it’s all crickets and tumbleweeds from the party of law & order and family values? Good times, good times.