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Bobbi Dempsey

@bobbidempsey.bsky.social
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Writer specializing in poverty, food/housing insecurity, and safety net programs. Also write about entertainment and lifestyle topics. Fan of all things 80s (plus 60s/70s musical icons). Passionate about animal rescue.

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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Any editors in my network interested in a story about the NeeDoh craze? I have sources including parents/kids, experts, and a company executive. Reach out via DM.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A note to the makers of Chrome: there has never been - and will never be - a time when I want Yahoo to be my default search engine. I admire your persistence but it's not going to happen so it's best for everyone if we all just accept the fact that I'm a Google girl.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Ha, this is great.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Was thrilled to see so many people turn out to voice their opposition to a 1300-acre data center coming to our township. This data center will negatively impact the area - and the people living in it - in so many ways, and it makes me sad to see it happen. 😢
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Ginger Cat Dusty @gingercatdusty.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Message to our friends from our hoomom. If able plz consider donating to a group that provides food for the beloved pets of people struggling right now. Our mum grew up very poor & remembers how hard it was to feed the family & their pet. Share some kindness. Love you all 🩷
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.
A tweet from J.J. Abbott (@jjabbott) says:
“Narrator: He did not fight.”
It quotes a 2022 tweet from John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) that reads:
“Health care is a basic, fundamental human right. I will fight for health care like the health care that saved my life. #PASenateDebate.”
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Some restaurants are offering free meals or other deals to those at risk of going hungry while SNAP benefits are interrupted. I spotlighted some of these offers in this @parademag.bsky.social story.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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a group of people standing on top of a soccer field .
ALT: a group of people standing on top of a soccer field .
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
As someone who grew up in poverty and relied on food stamps to keep hunger at bay, I had some thoughts on the SNAP situation.
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I Grew Up on Food Stamps. I’m Terrified of the Impending SNAP Crisis
Depriving vulnerable people of food is the ultimate in cruelty.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
UPenn got hacked today and the hackers sent out an obscenity-filled email saying they are a "dogsh*t elitist university" and won't protect your data privacy. I got the email (from 3 different UPenn accounts) because my dog was treated at their vet hospital. Wouldn't want to be their IT team today.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This obituary for a very good dog was published in a local paper, and now I really want dog obits to become a more common thing. 🐶
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Bella ‘bean’ Bomber – Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice
Bella ‘bean’ Bomber October 23, 2025 Bella bean Bomber, our sweet Bella. March 24, 2013-October 23, 2025 The dog that was built for love. You did not retrieve unless you were messing wi…
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 28/10/2025
The House hasn’t shown up for work in weeks. They all would have lost their health coverage by now if they were subject to the same bureaucratic work reporting requirements Republicans put in place for folks on Medicaid.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Any editors looking for op-eds or essays about the impending halt in SNAP benefits, from someone who grew up on food stamps? Please reach out - I have lots of thoughts on this topic, and can share insight from firsthand experience.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
In my latest health story for AARP, I asked experts for insight about the connection between weight gain and breast cancer risk.
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What to Know About Weight Gain and Breast Cancer Risk
Many women gain weight during and after menopause, and the added pounds can increase health risks
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The rescue where we adopted Ivy is having a calendar contest. Each vote is a donation to this excellent rescue organization, which could desperately use the support. gogo.photo/625369
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Vote for Ivy in 2026 Calendar Photo Contest and Fundraiser.
Show your support for S.N.O.R.T. Rescue by voting for Ivy in 2026 Calendar Photo Contest and Fundraiser
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"Destruction of federal property is a federal crime-18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines it as willfully injuring or committing any depredation of U.S. gov't property-Damage exceeding $1k is a felony w/ a fine-up to 10 yrs in prison or both" Meanwhile-took me forever to get permits to repaint my mailbox.
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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Check out this great op-ed by @rexhuppke.bsky.social for @usatoday.com. Just the opening paragraph alone is pure gold. We need more of this in outlets everywhere.
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Trump, Hegseth show they're small men acting big in front of military leaders | Opinion
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth held an expensive military meeting-that-could-have-been-an-email hours before the government is likely to shutdown.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all
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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.
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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Forget the not taking Tylenol when you’re pregnant. Find out whatever Trump’s mother was taking and avoid that shit at all costs.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Can't believe it's possible, but I'm actually going to be rooting for a drug company in a lawsuit.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The most unbelievable aspect of Trump’s fake story about the nonexistent Trump Tower employee whose son died after getting a vaccine is the part where Trump supposedly asks a distraught person if they’re okay. Nobody’s gonna believe that.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This is yet another time when I wonder if someone on his own team is trolling him. I mean, if you're planning a press conference where the main focus is on acetaminophen, the one word you should make sure he can pronounce would be...acetaminophen.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
One of the rescue orgs I support has a sweet French bulldog named Stephen King available for adoption. Would be so cool if his human counterpart @stephenking.bsky.social could sponsor him and maybe cover the adoption fee to help find him a home. www.snortrescue.org/dog/stephen-...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2025
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/09/2025
The goal of MAHA isn't better health. It's bigger health (and social) inequalities. Because equality is the greatest threat to power.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2025
“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it. Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day. They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Remember when stupid and uneducated Americans were generally apolitical? Like they didn't know or care. Man, I miss those days. Though not ideal, their stupidity was largely harmless to America. His Magasaty changed that, and now public health and democracy are in deep danger because of it.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/09/2025
Today's bulletin is a must read: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
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God @thegodshow.com · 31/08/2025
There’s a special place in hell for morons who get millions of people killed.
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Damn Moron To Get Millions Of People Killed
Damn RFK Jr. to hell.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
There's a Bob Dylan song for every occasion
And I hope that you die

And your death’ll come soon

I will follow your casket

In the pale afternoon

And I’ll watch while you’re lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I’ll stand o’er your grave

’Til I’m sure that you’re dead
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Never in the history of golf will so many people be this incredibly disappointed to see someone spotted on a golf course (if that happens).
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 25/08/2025
That one person in the zombie movie who doesn't tell the rest of the group they got bitten.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I saw someone post a theory that we actually all died in the pandemic and this is some sort of purgatory or crazy sci-fi afterlife. I gotta say, that makes a lot more sense than the idea that this shitshow is our reality. Because what's happening all around us is too hard to wrap my mind around.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
For a story for The Guardian, I'm looking for family caregivers - or people who may soon be family caregivers - who can discuss the impact that upcoming cuts/changes to Medicaid and other safety net programs might have on their family. Reach out via DM if you're interested.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thank you for EVERYTHING, @pbs.org ✨ We love you, we will never give up on you!The support from viewers like us for you is eternal! Public media teaches us kindness, teaches us to enjoy learning, teaches us that we all belong. PBS is my reason to stay. PBS, always and forever ❤️‍🩹💙🩵💚
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Still looking for a few veterans age 50+ who can answer a few questions about healthcare, support services, etc. Your name won't be used in the story. Reach out via DM.
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
For a story, I'm looking to talk to a few people age 50+ who are veterans or spouses/partners of veterans. I only need to ask a few questions about healthcare, support services, etc. and you won't be identified by name.
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Joshua Turek @joshuaturek.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I wish this summer was shaping up to be a little more Barbie and a lot less Oppenheimer
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Unsettling, but accurate...
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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Can't wait to see how many MAGA folks rush to sign up to serve in Trump's war.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2025
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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