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Connie Whorton

@connieleew.bsky.social
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Happily retired. Former A’s fan. Favorite teams are 49ers, Warriors and Valkyries. Love And support democracy.

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Connie Whorton @connieleew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The ultimate closer.
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Connie Whorton @connieleew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Construction starts in two weeks.
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Connie Whorton @connieleew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I will always be grateful to Mr. Green Jeans for introducing me to peanut butter on toast. IYKYK
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"The idea that this hub, built over decades, was significantly degraded in the space of a few days by a regional player is unimaginable. "That the US could not prevent and defend against a predictable attack on a Fleet Headquarters is quite startling." www.militarytimes.com/opinion/2026...
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The devastation of NSA Bahrain is a national security warning
Opinion: If NSA Bahrain is not reconstituted to pre-attack capabilities, it will fundamentally change how the U.S. Navy operates, the author of this op-ed writes.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.
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LeeLeeOnBsky @vg-plus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly gifted $1 million to Vanderbilt to support the development of the Covid vaccine. She always loved us.
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Connie Whorton @connieleew.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Make the world a better place. Be like Dolly.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly took a video of herself getting the Covid vaccine. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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2 unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania
The U.S. has reported more than 2,700 measles cases this year, the highest annual count since 1991.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It was only five months ago that China averted disaster by rejecting contaminated beef from Argentina. On March 19, 2026, Chinese authorities turned away a 22-ton shipment after detecting chloramphenicol. With serial-lying psychopath Trump as president, God help us.😒
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I just saw a dog wearing a leash that said “Selectively Social” and now I need to find a necklace version of it for myself.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Salary of executive assistant Natalie Harp: $150,000 a year. Average salary of a sailor on the USS Lincoln: ~ $50,000 a year.
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Connie Whorton @connieleew.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Private equity’s funds should not be allowed to buy public service products.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump pissed on the graves of a lot of Korean War vets today.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
That’s the gist of it.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026
Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Connie Whorton @connieleew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Had the A’s stayed, this would have been my retirement. @melissalockard.bsky.social
Retirement plan
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 07/08/2026
Every Senator voting for Blanche is supporting the Epstein cover-up and the ongoing corruption of the Trump Administration.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Blanche statement that likely now secures his confirmation does nothing to abrogate Trump’s rights in the slush fund and perpetuates the outrageous tax amnesty for Trump and family, which the American people are paying for without getting anything in return. It’s all lip service and a travesty.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It's noteworthy that the sticking point in getting Todd Blanche confirmed as AG involves financial corruption rather than Blanche refusing to release files about the sex trafficking of children by Trump's former friend. To Republicans, money is always more important than the welfare of children.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/07/2026
Just FYI, George Washington rushed the smallpox vaccine. Didn’t even get FDA approval. Deep state mind control
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Support the troops. End the war.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's so breathtakingly crass to treat the deaths of Americans serving in the military as some contest, a contest that, in your twisted, rotting mind, you think you can brag about winning. There is no reverence, sanity, solemnity, or decorum in this vile regime.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Jeff Timmer: Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Not dancing on anyone's grave, but maybe tapping my foot a little.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
White supremacists who are upset that a black woman was cast as Helen of Troy in the new movie The Odyssey “because it’s not historically accurate” have drawings of a blond, blue-eyed Jesus in their homes.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
She’s the only one in the correct century
An African-American woman commuter rides the DC metro surrounded by masked white supremacists of the Patriot Front
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I saw "Happy 4th" trending and thought Trump had announced his next wife.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
They are arresting U.S. Air Force Officers for free speech and U.S. Olympians for curiosity—but not rich men for raping children with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Again, money is not speech. Cartoon all the way back to 1997. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Connie Whorton @connieleew.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Crucial. Please watch.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The reflecting pool is just a metaphor for the Iran war.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/06/2026
I guess the paint is peeling off the grass, too.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Trump desperately wants things named after him. Perhaps the color-naming authorities could name the color of the reflecting pool algae Trump Green?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you hear Donald talk about how he is responsible for “phenomenal growth,” he’s talking about algae in the Reflecting Pool.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” —Thomas Jefferson
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Trump promised an unconditional surrender in Iran. Today, he delivered on that promise.
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Connie Whorton @connieleew.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Go, Australia!
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Cleve Jones is a human rights advocate, author, and lecturer who joined the gay liberation movement in 1972, co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983, and founded the AIDS Memorial Quilt—one of the world’s largest community arts projects—in 1987. #WeAreAmerica250
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