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outspoken woman. writer & artist. resisting injustice. substack.com/@ashleytripp1

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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 29/09/2026
Monday is last day to register to vote in Kentucky before November election kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/29/m...
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Monday is last day to register to vote in Kentucky before November election • Kentucky Lantern
This coming Monday — Oct. 5 — is the last day for Kentuckians to register to vote ahead of the November general election.
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flooded w #rage & #grief over #Cornell & the #Cornell7 rapists. Latest in an established #system of #violence & #violation against #women upheld by #institutions, #frats, & those in #power. The last decade provided endless examples from #MeToo to the #President. #believewomen #justice #SA #janedoe
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how many will be enough to do something?
TW: rape, sexual assault
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m tired of everyone dunking on the youth as if everyone wasn’t a dumbass in their teens. Why is empathy only given to predators (see manosphere)? Let the rest have their dumb online debates. Their cultural convos are already getting stolen by Big Media anyway to distract from real news. You 36!!
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Literally all over the US cops - who already have a violent and long history with authority overreach - are abusing the state surveillance cameras
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 22/09/2026
Medical groups, patients sue Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements Enrollees from Kentucky are part of lawsuit kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/22/r...
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Medical groups, patients sue Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements • Kentucky Lantern
Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements.
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My latest #post discussing #disability & #young #women who have been taking the #social fall in the #media. On #government #healthcare, #misogyny, #illness / #chronicillness, #disabled rights, #COVID, & more
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Too Disabled Is Still Not Disabled Enough
they’ll only be happy when we’re dead
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gwent champ @gwentchamp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Who pulled out of Ed's tour?
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Norman Stansfield in Leon The Professional: Everyone!
ALT: Norman Stansfield in Leon The Professional: Everyone!
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 10/09/2026
Reports say ICE detention is growing in KY but records, details remain unclear, advocates say From @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/10/r...
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Reports say ICE detention is growing in KY but records, details remain unclear, advocates say • Kentucky Lantern
The number of ICE detainees in Kentucky jails is growing, but the public knows less, according to new reports.
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 03/09/2026
Olivia Rodrigo, Doechii, Chappell Roan & Sarah McLachlan grace the cover of Rolling Stone’s digital issue.
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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Kate QuestionMark @octofussy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
so literal Gloria Steinem dies but that hunk of shit man still walks the earth. I feel like this is someone outside the matrix trying to wake me up.
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Last time I checked it was my right as an American to call a pedophile a pedophile in the First Amendment. No outrage over it being a lie either. “Respect” can kiss my ass. The president is a person, not a blue blood. Given the horrifying things I’ve heard come out of GOP mouths, this is laughable
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 01/09/2026
Olivia Rodrigo: -planned successful all women music festival -raised 10 million for women’s charities -pro Palestine, anti ICE -is 23 years old Young woman pop stars can use their voices and platforms for change, if they want to.
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Robot dogs designed to hunt people… where have I read this before??? #THG
Katniss Everdeen in the first hunger games movie next to a hologram of a computer generated “mutt” 
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#KY, take your #rage at #MitchMcConnell & his ~80 day disappearance as what the #GOP is. This is what #AndyBarr would support while working you to death & robbing YOU of leave. W/ EVERY CONVO AB THIS, SAY THE NAME OF THE ALTERNATIVE: @booker4ky.bsky.social. it’s our only hope for difference
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Of all the Dolly tributes (many & deserved), I stumbled across a quote of hers about her ImaginationLibrary. As a woman who grew up poor in the rural foothills of Appalachia, learned & lived off a library card, the idea helped shape me. Reading opened my world, just like she wanted. This is for her
Photo of Dolly Parton over pink background with the quote “ you can never get enough books into the hands of children”
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Saturday, #OliviaRodrigo puts on #DaisyChainFields so let’s talk about why it - and the drop of “serena joy” - are necessary ashleytripp1.substack.com/p/pop-meets-...
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Pop Meets Politics
a new woman defined by actions
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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lyndsay @magpie.tips · 26/08/2026
"what a week, huh?" / "lemon it's Wednesday" meme
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Check out my piece on how #advertisement around #periods have #influenced our #ideas about the #modern #independent #woman! #menstruation #feminism #women #workingwomen #tampons #commcercials #madmen #period #periodresources #ads #abstracts #values #freedom #feminist #reproductivehealth #health
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Menstrual Products & Mad (Wo)Men
Tampons, working women, & advertisement
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#ice continues to up their #aggression & #violence with the #shock #gloves. When you take off your “uniform,” you’ll always be a boot-licking, Gestapo-style pig. & if you don’t think men will find a way to use these to assault #women you’re a fool
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New #Substack post is up! Get ready to dig into #women, the #coolgirl, & #aesthetics vs #female #empowerment with this one. #Media & #influencers rebranded to keep up the same #behaviors The bolts of #feminism are being loosened from the inside & we have to kill variations of this to be liberated!
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We were supposed to kill the “cool girl”
instead we revitalized her
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Matriarchy Now @matriarchy.now · 11/08/2026
If we haven't been reminding you enough, vote because your life depends upon it.
Women entering a voting booth with white hoods and red robes. Exiting the voting booth wearing whatever clothes they choose.
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Love these new #ChatGPT commercials emphasizing it can do literally the same as a basic Google search but old af boomers have alienated every person in their life they have to turn to AI machines to teach them basic stuff
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Watching #Blanche be confirmed as #AG is a slap in the face. It is MORE proof of how useless our system is. 2 reps got a CYA vote? A representational system like this doesn’t work - not for the people or their wishes. They get $$$ to get in office, turn on their own voters, & bend at every turn.
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Fasier Tv: Frasier Crane on Government
Alt: Fasier Tv: Frasier Crane on Government
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 07/08/2026
9 years ago today, Harry Styles released “Two Ghosts.”
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Official government response to the mass number of abusers holding federal power
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Rodrick Says 'I'm Sorry, Women'
Alt: Rodrick Says 'I'm Sorry, Women'
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
All it took was a broken collarbone of a 2 year old, a detailed history of extreme violence towards women, multiple restraining orders, & a viral internet scandal to get the House to act. The watering down of already underdressed DV is enraging. To be a woman in the US…
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Charles Booker @booker4ky.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If you have overlooked Kentucky, look again. Mitch isn’t running. Andy Barr is a spineless fraud no one likes. Meanwhile, we have built coalitions from the Hood to the Holler. Lock arms with us. We’re flipping this Senate seat.
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Former #governor of #KY once again proves how the #rich, the white, and the #Republican easily flaunt any respect for #authority. The fact there is not a hunt for #Bevin RIGHT NOW with allegations of #abuse & direct #contempt is ridiculous!
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Journalists love simultaneously reporting how Trump is idiotic and delusional while acting as mouthpieces to legitimize the GOP. The # of articles framing the new MM pic/statement as fact from him and not the spokespeople (proving nothing) is crazy. Ragebaiting the investigation out of journalism
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Charles Booker @booker4ky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The secrecy and dishonesty continuing to be fueled by Mitch McConnell and his team is offensive and wrong. There is nothing normal about this, and it strikes at the very chords that cause so many Americans to distrust politics.
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Repeated iterations that thousands of voters are ignorant, rather than discussing the growing discontent, is exactly why politicians lose
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The difference between #Mamdani openly discussing if he can arrest #Netanyahu vs. #Beshear (‘s defenders) claiming his hands are tied ab #MitchMcConnell is the literal difference between real & fake #progressive #politicians playing out in real time btw!!
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
There’s a lot of European hate on here towards everyday Americans ab the World Cup over decisions we have no control over/don’t really care ab?? & it plays into the isolation and “you deserve it” factor that so often coincides with authoritarianism? & normal ppl suffer from your general disdain?
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icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this but, if you drive down roads or receive benefits. Attend school or use any aspects of the society you live in. It involves politics. So this assumption one can avoid it is a fallacy in your mind you’ve created to not participate. Your entire life is political!
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 17/07/2026
Dozens of Kentuckians with disabilities and their loved ones and advocates came to Frankfort Friday and pleaded with elected officials to find a way to protect the services they receive through Medicaid waivers. From @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social: kentuckylantern.com/2026/07/17/k...
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Kentuckians with disabilities, advocates say looming 4% Medicaid cut is a ‘threat’ • Kentucky Lantern
Gov. Andy Beshear has blamed the legislature for forcing his hand to the cuts. Lawmakers have said he could better manage the money provided.
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
AI and gambling companies using the World Cup just like they did the Olympics to define themselves as the great philosophers of our time is about the most idiotic reach one could think of and yet there the commercials are
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
MLB is like the Democratic Party in that they’re deeply concerned about popularity and all their actions seem to be aimed at capturing some mythical person who has never become a baseball fan and will probably never become a baseball fan meanwhile baseball fans are yelling PLEASE JUST PLAY BASEBALL
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Every death that comes from the hands of #ice (murder) is deeply tragic. The fact that people are still going out on the streets to protest against them shows an immense strength of everyday Americans & where their values lay
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If we can take all this energy w #MitchMcConnell & throw it into #support for @booker4ky.bsky.social for #Senate, that will help #change #Kentucky. If YOU feel like the #gop is full of #liars, spread the name & message of the #Dem nominee who’s actually #progressive. Now is when momentum is higher
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
VERY excited to get an update on the #WPBL - especially the #diversity & inclusiveness easily shown in the aftermath of the #SFGiants #pitchers #homophobia during #Pride. Go #women, go #queer #athletes, go #baseball!
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
You should NEVER have to question if a #senator is even alive. The “proof” shouldn’t come from people proven untrustworthy. If you can’t appear in front of the #people you #represent, esp as #SenateMajorityLeader, you sure as hell shouldn’t be in office
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security” - Declaration of Independence
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National Treasure Nicolas Cage
Alt: National Treasure Nicolas Cage saying “couldn’t really be that simple?”
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If you live in the #US & you’re not willing to talk about the #corruption, the #inequity, the people in need, systemic #racism, #sexism or #assault, #Trump’s #abuse of #power, our failed #democracy… if you’re not willing to FIGHT for a better #USA, this line is NOT for you - ESP on the #FourthofJuly
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I'M With You
Alt: Beaten Steve Rodger/Captain America telling the Winter Soldier (Bucky) “I’m with you till the end of the line”
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“Relinquish the business of #Kentucky back to the #people” AMEN!! No matter your #party, we need a #rep (most #powerful one at that) who can function. It’s decades past time for #McConnell’s exit. DO NOT normalize incompetent old people as #political #leaders - we’re paying for #trump w that
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ashley @ashmeadow.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Call me a too woke #leftist but if #mitchmcconnell hasn’t been seen, it’s #hospitalized, missed #20+ #votes, & might even be dead (or very out of it) PERHAPS HE SHOULDNT BE THE #SENATE #MAJORITY #LEADER!!! It sounds radical, but if you can be “too young” you sure as hell are too old to function!!!
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Andor: Karis Nemik's Urgent Words
Alt: Andor: Nemik's warning, “ so much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly.”
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 02/07/2026
BREAKING: 10-man U.S. knocks out Bosnia-Herzegovina to advance to the round of 16.
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U.S. beats Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 to advance to round of 16 and keep its World Cup dreams alive
Folarin Balogun scored his third goal of the World Cup before being sent off with a red card in the second half, and Malik Tillman converted on a free kick to give the 10-man United States squad a 2-0 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina to advance to the round of 16.
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