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Cherie F.

@cheriefoster.bsky.social
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Doer, community, family, friends, cats, good causes, recovering editor. My son is an immigrant, my pastor's gay, and for sure I'm not an enemy of the people. #Democracy 🫠⚾🏊‍♂️🇬🇹🇬🇹 #resist

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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
(202)224-3871 This is the number of the Senate Armed Forces Committee. Call them. Hegseth is a bad cartoon character. He has decapitated the leadership ranks. depleted strategic stockpiles, squandered billions & targeted civilians & infrastructure while failing to take care our people. #Hegseth
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why does baseball hate loyal fans who live in rural areas with dubious internet? Why? Especially, when we already pay for a satellite baseball package. Really. screw these guys. #homerunderby
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
#orchids #caturday #gardening Even Bobby is enjoying these bigbox salvaged orchids from last year. In a Florida winter when not even heaters could save some fancy orchids, celebrate the survivors. (or think about taking a big bite out of them.)
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It's going to be the best year ever for the North-Central Florida peach-eating squirrels. They can have the fruit, but ah, the blossoms, they're mine. #gardening
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
#orchids, doing their thing (indoors so I may enjoy the beauty) despite Florida's Jekyll and Hyde winter. I wish my cats didn't love oncedium leaves as much as I love this plant's pretty color.
three orchid plants on a kitchen table in brilliant shades of purple and orange
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The most worthless three words in the US vernacular are now any variation of, US officials say...
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I sincerely hope her family can reap enough in a defamation settlement from these shameless ghouls that her kids are able to pay full freight at the universities of their choice.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
There's an editing error here. Should read "Trump has made bigotry a centerpiece of his administration." instead of: Trump has made eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts a centerpiece of his administration
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Because in the last election, the people who said they care about such beautiful things forgot they cared and didn't bother to vote. Now this beautiful place, and the the magic it held, are lost. Effing vote next time. #KennedyCenter www.threads.com/@amay.a100/p...
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Chidinma Anyanwu (@amay.a100) on Threads
President Obama had the best Kennedy Center honors. He tears up when Aretha franklin performed “A Natural Woman” written by Carole King
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Christmas T.Cat, about 100, lickus interruptus. #caturday.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
How horrible are you if you are excluded from the memorial for one of history's truly horrible people?
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Regardless of the inside baseball negotiations, and equivocating, Schumer got owned by his OWN WHIP. How can you lead the party when you can't keep your second in command in line? The time for change was last week.
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tokimeow.bsky.social @tokimeow.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It's time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people. sign.moveon.org/petitions/sc...
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Schumer: Step Down as Minority Leader!
It's time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
It all sounds good to him until he figures out that if the money sucking insurance companies can't suck money from us, they won't have any big, beautiful money to give him. (When they're done choking on their martinis, II'm sure the insurance lobbyists will remind him of this.)
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Victory comes in a big tent that has room for democratic-socialists, where that's the right model, progressives, centrists and even blue dogs, if that's what wins. It's not one or the other, it's all of the above.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Get on this #DNC
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
#Trump #Congress Not only did founders not envision a lowlife could rise so high, it never envisioned the 500 or so lowlife enablers in Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
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Opinion | Burnin’ Down the House
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Until Democrats effectively break through the right wing media bubble, this is life.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
You didn't want to see it, #rogan. It was there all along, the dehumanizing racism, lies, open bigotry. Millions of us saw and heard; you chose not to. Now you need to work to make it right with the same energy you used to support these bastards
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Indeed. The scariest part? Hunting in the vacuum for inspiring leadership to lead us in to battle, we have landed on an inflatable frog. All that's left is to hop to it #resist #demleadership #DNC
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
There is a profound editing error near the end of this as the court is not moving toward sweeping presidential powers, they are moving toward sweeping powers for THIS president. And that, looking back at the Biden era rulings, is a disgrace. #supremecourt www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...
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Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Church lady analysis: Plastic appetizer cups from the Dollar Tree for individual servings, 6 to a pack, went from $1 to $1.25 under Biden. Today, for yogurt parfaits, $2 a pack @ DT. Church lady math says Drump's economy is at least three times worse than Biden's. Paper cups it is. #trumpeconomy
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
#Chicago Watching the division playoff game with the Brewers. Gotta give it to Chicagoans, putting on a sold-out ballgame amid the horrors of war. Here's to those stalwart fans dodging, well, whatever, to support their guys.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A full moon over Florida and my beautiful freak of nature is showing out. Night blooming cerus.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
#Florida Attn: Walmart & Big Boxes: It's Fummer here; Still hot. but JUST enough cooler that we can pull 5 months of weeds, plant things we've been nursing in shaded pots, & get things in order for Winterish. We can't do this stuff if ALL the garden supplies are replaced with Christmas decor. STOP!
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Big stretch for ancient -- and very territorial --Christmas Cat. #caturday
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Nothing will change until we stop sane washing this regime-- Noem defeating the NFL, Miller battling Antifa, and pieces like this from AP about the unserious, uninformed, inattentive, juvenile Trump.There's no strategy; just a crazy naked emperor. #Trump #sanewashing apnews.com/article/gove...
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The Oval Office meeting didn't stop a shutdown, but the Trump 2028 hats and a sombrero set a tone
Halfway through Donald Trump’s inaugural White House meeting with congressional leadership, the red "Trump 2028" hats appeared on the president’s desk.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
#dnc @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social Grab the narrative. 24-7. all platforms; all the time. ALL hands on deck. Not press conferences, not stern letters, not fundraising letters. Precise, engaging, direct engagement. Break through the algorithms. DO IT!
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Dems need to be 24-7-house-on-fire- everywhere, anywhere all the time relentlessly assaulting the stupidity that got us here. AND, standing tall at the gates of Democracy to protect the system of checks & balances and the workforce that keeps us running from idealogues Voght & Miller.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
#usaid In the daily chaos and misery over the media's shortcomings, I believe that the #NYT has not taken its eyes off the politics and impact of cuts to USAID. The opinion work from Nicholas Kristoff from impact communities is wrenching and infuriating.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#shutdown #tariffs #democrats Nate Silver has been wrong a lot recently, but here he has things right. Democrats need to walk and chew gum: Do both, fight for health care & against tariffs. Go on offense, don't debate false narratives. instead lead with facts. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Are Picking the Wrong Shutdown Fight
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I wish elected #Democrats loved their voters the way the GOP loves a podcaster. #DNC you don't have our backs. You have truth buried in your briefcases but you don't have a narrative, and you don't have any fight. Yet, you'll want our votes, our work, and money. #senatedemocrats #hluserepublucans
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Trump has told the world he is only president of some people; he is the enemy of the rest. It's the time for the shadow government to speak truth, clearly, loudly and without ceasing. #DNC,#senatedemocrats,#housedemocrats ask for our support, yet who among them has our backs?
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
You know how you fight crime in communities: by funding local police, mental health, intervention and fully staffed courts. Restore funding, remove troops from communities &:support local police. DOJ Funding Update: A Deeper Look at the Cuts - Council on Criminal Justice share.google/epoK5EwyaMEL...
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DOJ Funding Update: A Deeper Look at the Cuts - Council on Criminal Justice
This report from CCJ Senior Fellow Amy Solomon examines April 2025 funding cuts from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and their implications for public safety, trust ...
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This business-as-usual needs to stop. A government headed by a feckless lunatic that would go to "war" with its own citizenry should NOT be funded. He wants an apocalypse; give him a legislative one. #senatedemocrats #DNC #apocalypse
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social Where is your line? What is too far? If you ignore this because your bespoke consultants are telling you that's a winning strategy, the prize will be the ashes of Democracy and your comfort is meaningless. Hear the people. #dosonethingdemocrat
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Still we do nothing. Count me among the #dosomethingdemocrats , The blue lifers who can barely stomach the tepid emails, "concern," "stern" rebukes. You are not hearing us & you are not making the case to independent & sane red voters. This battle needs ALL of us; blue dogs to progressives. Be bold.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This cannot be repeated often enough. Continuous, disciplined, factual, engaging communication that is ahead of the new cycle rather than reactive. There is no time and no place for dilettante and dabbler #Democrats
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This is all true. But, we're not going to end it with pop-up boutique Democrats, showing up to throw out a post, opine at a symposium, write an oped here and there. This takes all-hands on deck, all the time with a clear message: Where is it, who's picking up the baton? #democrats
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
-- Stop.acting like there aren't armed military troops headed for our cities. --we are speeding toward serfdom in Trumfuckestan. --In short order we won't need to explain the economy; it will be clear to all. But, we will need to explain why we weren't louder & fiercer apnews.com/article/demo...
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'No magic fixes' for Democrats as party confronts internal and fundraising struggles
Ken Martin, the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, says he's bringing a bazooka to the fight against President Donald Trump and his Republican allies.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
What a bunch of embarrassing amateurs.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
They are the 19% we hate. That said, there is no singular candidate; only the candidate that can win that community because to escape the tiny minded, iron box of facism, we have to abandon purity tests, condemnation of "moderates" and rebuild the big tent. What's needed most now is leadership.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
#Democrats #schumer #Jeffries You are battling a five-alarm fire with a warm cup of spit.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
This seems like a state struggling with its moral priorities. (AP headlines)
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
There's something wrong when people think banging these two words together is good. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
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Opinion | Is ‘Toxic Empathy’ Pulling Christians to the Left?
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Swampity, swamp, swampiest. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/07/08/a... #Florida #DeSantis #grift
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Maxwell: DeSantis spending orgy at Alligator Alcatraz benefits donors
Campaign donors cash in at Alligator Alacatraz as Gov Ron DeSantis uses ’emergency’ declaration to skirt competitive bidding rules for $450 million project.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
When the smallest people with the most outsized egos are in charge of important things... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
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Missteps, Confusion and ‘Viral Waste’: The 14 Days That Doomed U.S.A.I.D.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Some good questions here for #schumer #jeffries Redefining the word leadership, and not in a good way. #iran #warpowers #congress www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
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Opinion | Trump Might Take the U.S. to War. Where Are Schumer and Jeffries?
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
@democrats.senate.gov is there a war room, an organized strategy, a media campaign to defeat the poison pills? P25 sells off federal land.turns the federal workforce into a fielty goon squad, unconstitutionally siezes power. Beyond economic impact, this is a lethal reordering of US governance.
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Cherie F. @cheriefoster.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
#chuckschumer #hakeemjefries #FEMA Again. Where is your redline. if the military rolling through American cities isn't it, how about turning federal emergency management funds into a presidential slush fund? That should be getting there, right? Fog a mirror, please.
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