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69, introspective science and nature enthusiast; philosophizer; failed political activist, 'Napa' (aka baby whisperer). If we aren't changing minds, we are losing. Final effort: InDefenseOfWomen postcard activism, curious? View: gofund.me/d0738415

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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Please be sure to offer us regular updates. i.postimg.cc/mrjBxFLt/IMG...
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
For what it's worth, I've shared your story: forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/18f-gsa-go...
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18f.gsa.gov/about/ - USA Government website shutting down
Hello want to try an experiment, try opening this government webpage - let me know if you can get in. https://18f.gsa.gov https://18f.gsa.gov/about/ I’m asking because I came across a letter for th...
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Democratic Party needs to get back in touch with its grassroots. We need getting better informed and engaged and help with networking with each other to build solidarity and motivation ! ! citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/demo...
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A Democratic Party online Forum. To help inform and build community. It is worth a try.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social Here's an idea worth getting into the public dialogue - Lobbying for a Democratic Party members online forum, to help inform us & to engage and network with like minded. May I suggest: A Democratic Party online Forum. citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/demo...
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A Democratic Party online Forum. To help inform and build community. It is worth a try.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here's an idea that I'd love to get into the public dialogue - Lobbying for a Democratic Party members online forum, to help reconnect with alienated voters and to help us connect with each other. May I suggest: A Democratic Party online Forum. citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/demo...
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A Democratic Party online Caucus Forum. Why not?
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here's an idea that I'd love to get into the public dialogue - Lobbying for a Democratic Party members online forum, to help reconnect with alienated voters and to help us connect with each other. May I suggest: A Democratic Party online Forum. citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/demo...
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A Democratic Party online Caucus Forum. Why not?
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here's an idea that I'd love to get into the public dialogue - Lobbying for a Democratic Party members online forum, to help reconnect with alienated voters and to help us connect with each other. May I suggest: A Democratic Party online Forum. citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/demo...
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A Democratic Party online Caucus Forum. Why not?
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here's an idea that I'd love to get into the public dialogue - Lobbying for a Democratic Party members online forum, to help reconnect with alienated voters and to help us connect with each other. May I suggest: A Democratic Party online Forum. citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/demo...
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A Democratic Party online Caucus Forum. Why not?
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here's an idea that I'd love to get into the public dialogue - Lobby for a Democratic Party members online forum, to help reconnect with alienated voters and to help us connect with each other. May I suggest: A Democratic Party online Forum. citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/demo...
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A Democratic Party online Caucus Forum. Why not?
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I'm sorry I am not. Though you might try swcenter.fortlewis.edu/learn/our-co... Good luck
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Archival Resources | Center of Southwest Studies
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How will Democratic Party leaders start reconnecting with alienated voters whose budgets won’t allow for constant political donations? How can you help us connect & network with like minded? May I suggest: A Democratic Party online Forum. Why not? citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/demo...
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A Democratic Party online Caucus Forum. Why not?
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How will DNC leaders start reconnecting with alienated voters unable to make political donations? How can you help connect & network with each other? May I suggest: A Democratic Party online Forum. Why not?https://citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/democratic-party-caucus-forum.html
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How will Democratic Party leaders start reconnecting with alienated voters whose budgets won’t allow for constant political donations? May I suggest: A Democratic Party online Forum. Why not?https://citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/democratic-party-caucus-forum.html
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A Democratic Party online Caucus Forum. Why not?
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Yeah, didn't take long to figure that out, I called her out on it and that was the end of her interest. Thanks for the tip, I'm here to find some relatable real humans and to share my own thoughts. citizenschallenge.blogspot.com CASE FOR REALITY whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/p/because-ap...
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
What? Are you confused by something you've read in this thread? Share your grief. 🫠
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Pine 🌲 ⛰️ 📚 🗡️🪶🎹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @mountainfiain.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Recrudescence. Yep. That about sums it up.
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Pine 🌲 ⛰️ 📚 🗡️🪶🎹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @mountainfiain.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Pine 🌲 ⛰️ 📚 🗡️🪶🎹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @mountainfiain.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I have read “The 1619 Project” more than once. I have just begun watching the documentary on HULU for it. For all of the Kristi Noems and Don Trumps out there, who belong to the “1776 Project” in all their pride and glory…piss off. Acknowledgment is the tiniest of steps in the right direction. JFC.
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Pine 🌲 ⛰️ 📚 🗡️🪶🎹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @mountainfiain.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
1619books.com 👍
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1619 Books
The 1619 Project is The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning reframing of American history that placed slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Are you familiar with Chaco culture history? Can you recommend any trustworthy sources that include up to date info? (I live in the southwestern tip of Colorado - Mesa Verde is practically in my back yard, etc..)
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Painfully true. Or biggest sin is thinking we can ignore those realities, our sins will catch up to us. Western mankind needed to openly recognize and challenge its own Self-absorbed thinking and Self-serving actions, never considering the costs filling our expectations requires. We failed.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
(5/5) "Entrust her with the legal responsibility. It is significant that abortion is as old as civilization, even Jewish scripture presents the Abrahamic God's perspective on the crisis in a forgiving humane manner." Postcard advocacy In Defense of Women (v.3) Curious? gofund.me/d0738415
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
4/5 "Life can force impossible situations upon people, who are we to judge her? Why not some compassion for the most difficult decision in a person’s life? Only the woman has the situational awareness, along with the moral and ethical standing, to decide the future of the growing fetus within her.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
(3/5) " why doesn't a woman deserve the Right to Her Own Self-Defense - along with Sovereignty Over Her Own Body? Why wouldn't a just society clearly acknowledge: “A woman's life is more precious to her existing family, and to society, than an unborn potentiality.”?
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
(2/5) "A fetus certainly is human, but it’s a potentiality, a person in the making, the fetus does not take on the mantle of personhood until those first breaths of life-giving air start infusing its lungs and arteries and tissues with oxygen. In a free society, legally speaking,
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A segue: (1/5) "Birth and death are part and parcel of our human condition, they can't be moralized out of existence. A pregnancy is never a guarantee - and this is not about the fate of the fetus. This is about who has the most realistic and moral ‘standing’ to make such a fateful decision.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It took a lot of bravery and willingness to sacrifice.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Too true, and Carl Sagan died nearly three decades ago (1996), why were so few paying attention? The Founding Father's of America's made it clear that democracy required an informed and engaged citizenry. Yes, and citizens who care.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Reviving them in four years. You think?
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
So true, and we spent decades ignoring the GOP as they were brainwashing folks with lies and misplaced anger. Where do we go from here?
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 25/11/2024
Who knew? When fossil fuel companies are told where they’re emitting methane they don’t do anything about it. Can’t be trusted.
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The World Promised to Tame Methane. Emissions Are Still Rising
About 160 countries and 140 companies pledged to combat the potent greenhouse gas, yet releases from the fossil fuels sector remain near record highs.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
What's the plan? If we aren't changing minds we are losing.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 27/11/2024
Confirming qualified lower court judges is crucial to ensure a well-functioning, independent judiciary. But, sadly, no number of normal judges helps against the pipeline of faux litigation* brought to MAGA judges and circuits via judge-shopping, thence to captured Supreme Court.
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Opinion | The Senate Should Leave No Judgeship Unfilled
Donald Trump will try to fill every judgeship that Democrats leave open.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
What's the plan for dealing with the next four years? When this election feels like game over? If we aren't changing minds we are losing. I mean the Democrats did so little while they still had some power, what now? citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/02/demo...
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Democratic Party Online Discussion Forum - Make it part of the 2022 Colorado Democratic Party Platform.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 24/11/2024
What do you bet Trump’s transition is being funded by a bunch of looters and polluters, out to loot our country and pollute our country?
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Trump Is Running His Transition Team on Secret Money
Breaking with past practice, President-elect Donald J. Trump has not agreed to disclose the donors paying for his planning effort or to limit their contributions.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 26/11/2024
The billionaire looters and polluters are licking their chops. Payback time!
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Opinion | Crony Capitalism Is Coming to America
Business success may increasingly depend on connections, not competence.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 27/11/2024
What failure looks like.
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A Big Climate Goal Is Getting Farther Out of Reach
A new report forecasts global temperature increases well above the level that world leaders have pledged to avoid.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 28/11/2024
Disappointing that for four years Biden DOJ refused to even give such a case an honest look — though they had won their similar tobacco case years ago. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/c...
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Maine Becomes the Latest State to Sue Oil Companies Over Climate Change
In a new lawsuit, the state’s attorney general claims oil companies deceived the public about fossil fuel products’ contributions to climate change.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I'm not a Rhode Islander, but I'm incredibly grateful that you've been reelected. We need you more than ever! Please keep up the good work!!!
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Mayita shared this photo taken in the sweet potato fields of California. Her youngest daughter wanted a graduation photo in the fields to show how proud she is of her mom being a farm worker and how hard her mom had worked to invest in her children’s opportunities.
a farm worker in the fields holding a handful of plants in her gloved hands. her daughter stands next to her in full graduation cap and gown. they are both beaming at the camera.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Well said
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is incredibly disturbing and goes against every rule of war, international law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the very ethic of the military. A disciplined military goes to every length to prevent civilian deaths and having a SecDef who doesn't care is unacceptable.
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Annastasia @annastasia77.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I just leave this here.....
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Tulsi Gabbard is running sock puppet PACs and a nonprofit that won’t reveal its donors to pay herself! Color me shocked. Who would have thought?! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tulsi Gabbard keeps starting up PACs. Where is the money going?
When her appointment as director of national intelligence is vetted, the Senate should scrutinize her political operation.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sorry, I participate at CFI Forum (center for inquiry), now bluesy. Not ready to try another before getting a handle on this one. I do have a gmail account at, "citizenschallenge..." If you want to give that a try. Though, now I'm getting the feeling you are selling something, and I'm broke.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Oh dear, I've been too much of a luddite, woulda, coulda, shoulda. Well, I guess better late than never. Thank you for that excellent suggestion, I will look into it. Best wishes, citizenschallenge.blogspot.com
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hello Sophia, Thank you for your interest. "Owner" is big word, but yes it's just me here, unfortunately. This is my third version of my InDefenseOfWomen postcard - a lot of rewriting. It's the least I could do, considering what a wonderful difference women have made in my life, and who I am today.
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Citizenschallenge @citizenschallenge.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
What can we do? I understanding building community, but we are so spread out, and the internet has gotten so poisonous.
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