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Defiant Mom

@dfiantmom.bsky.social
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Mom of two, LGBTQ ally, feminist, and an advocate for people living with a disability. I love my kids, adore my dog, and enjoy a great book. Goal for 2025: speak softly, carry a big stick

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
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Dr. Lara Ameen @trucherrygirl.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I will be teaching this WRITING DISABLED CHARACTERS IN FICTION workshop online through Women on Writing for six weeks starting July 15th! All disabled writers welcome! Sign up below! #DisabilitySky #AmWriting #Teaching #BookSky #WritingCommunity www.wow-womenonwriting.com/classroom/La...
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Writing Disabled Characters in Fiction with Dr. Lara Ameen
Disabled people make up about 20% of the U.S. population, but only about 2% of disabled characters are represented on-screen and most of that representation deals with damaging stereotypes. This six-w...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/06/2025
Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts? Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 16/06/2025
Vote them out!
We the people will never forget the cowards in congress who kept quiet.
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Charlie Austin @chuckles-s.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Avoid the USA vm.tiktok.com/ZMSf2xNaA/
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Jill 💙🌊🌊💙 @pumpkin061.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This month, I beg you to look past the prejudice & the preaching you’ve had crammed down your throat your whole life. Look past your anger, & your pastor’s fear. Look at these beautiful humans. Trying with all their hearts to claim the dignity and love and safety that they, as humans, deserve. (MKB)
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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The people who have so much are telling you that the people who have nothing are the problem. #greed #wealth #money #equality
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/05/2025
This weekend we're celebrating all of the moms who support their children without condition, exactly as they are.
A photo of a person in front of the Supreme Court holding a handmade rally sign reading "Proud mom of a cherished trans child."
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
As the parent of a young man who uses a wheelchair, this is beyond infuriating. Republicans need to respond and stand up for their constituents. “By then, it was too late to send it back. The total cost of her wheelchair was close to $6,000, of which nearly $3,500 was for tariffs alone.”
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Racism is when you believe a white guy is innocent after a jury has concluded 34 times that he isn’t, and you immediately decide an immigrant is guilty when the immigrant hasn’t even had a chance to present their defense.
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/05/2025
Work deserves dignity. A living wage. A home. Health care. Security in hard times. FDR called these basic rights — not luxuries. youtube.com/shorts/Ox_dP...
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FDR's Second Bill of Rights
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Bernie has been right all along.
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“I never heard of X when I was a kid” doesn’t mean anything! I never heard of a bagel when I was a kid, yet they existed. They just didn’t exist in my experience…doesn’t mean they didn’t exist.
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Former US Congresswoman Liz Cheney issues urgent call to Democrats: “stop fundraising and start fighting”
In the US, as political tensions reach a boiling point and democratic norms continue to erode under what many now
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Feeling proud of my Governor today!! @govevers.wisconsin.gov www.startribune.com/wisconsin-go...
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Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says
The Wisconsin governor's creative use of his uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years may be ''attention grabbing,'' but it was constitutional, the state Supreme Court...
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Way to go Dr. Underly! Thank you for advocating for our kids and schools! @underlyforwi.bsky.social www.weau.com/app/2025/04/...
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Wisconsin DPI will not sign certification related to Title VI compliance
“We will always do what is best for kids,” State Superintendent Dr. Jill Underly said.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
'If Your Church Won't Speak Out About a Deported Father (and Thousands More Like Him)—It May as Well Cancel Easter' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Propaganda…the end game is the same. To convince the general public that there is such a thing as “a life not worth living.” Using a toilet unassisted is not what gives life meaning, nor do any of the other things listed. This is straight out of the nazi handbook.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Strong moment from AOC’s speech in Utah
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
HHS Scraps Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... It has never been about protecting families and babies. If Republicans really valued families and babies, cutting funding for these critical newborn screenings would never be considered. Never.
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HHS Scraps Advisory Committee on Newborn Screening
Cut comes as new conditions could have been added to a national screening panel
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Carter Center
“The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.”
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/04/2025
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.
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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history. They aren't even bothering to hide it.
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Dawn @dawnpaints.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The same kids who graduated from high school during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, no graduation ceremony, no senior prom, no sports or games to go to…are now graduating from college and starting their careers under more Trump idiocy. I see you guys, this is fucked up, life will get better. ❤️‍🩹
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Strength, courage, integrity, passion, empathy, intelligence, humor, charisma…He gives me hope. Thank you Senator Booker! @booker.senate.gov
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Feeling extra cheesy in Wisconsin tonight!
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thank you Senator Booker! @booker.senate.gov
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
My faith in humanity needs some landslide victories tomorrow.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/03/2025
This is what corruption looks like.
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lola1985.bsky.social @lola1985.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If this doesn’t make you angry, I don’t know what will. 🤬
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 23/03/2025
Every sitting Republican is complicit in the destruction of America.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 20/03/2025
Facts matter.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I don’t have to agree with the Gaza protestors to defend their right to protest. And I don’t have to want Venezuelan gang members to be here on our soil, to defend their right to due process. Either we are a nation of laws or we are not. And if we are not, then all is lost.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Learning to walk away has been tough, but necessary.
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This is leadership! This is “of the people for the people by the people”! Can’t wait to see you on the road Coach!!! www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...
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Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts | CNN Politics
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans, some of whom have stopped holding town halls amid the raucous receptions their colleagues...
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Disgrace!
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It’s my son. It’s my daughter. It’s me. If you give two shits about any of us, celebrating the end of DEI is the absolute end to any positive regard I ever held for you. Bye now.
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Defiant Mom @dfiantmom.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is what “going high” looks like it today’s political climate! We need more Mama Bear energy like this until those fuckers get the point. We don’t back down and don’t stay silent!
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…
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