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Donna Schwartz

@dragondonna72.bsky.social
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Retired Science teacher, progressive Democrat, enthusiastic reader and quilter

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Judges in the US used to give the federal govt the presumption of good faith, and took their words to be credible. It's kind of wild that in 2026 any judge is still doing that. This judge found out what a foolish move that was only after 100s of trees were cut down. (PS: MAGA = ecociders)
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think the only thing we should trust about corporations is that their motivation is profit. They are not moral. They are not ethical. They will do ANYTHING in the name of profit. If the culture is shifting and they start up “woke” ads again, it doesn’t mean they care about people or the planet.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We stand in solidarity with @ilhanmn.bsky.social as the regime targets her just weeks before elections. Let us also continue to stand in solidarity with @replamonica.bsky.social who has been targeted by the regime since May 2025. There’s a reason the DOJ has been targeting Black women electeds.
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Donna Schwartz @dragondonna72.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's good to know everyone is getting prepared!
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh they know which way the wind is blowing. The incoming shift in marketing is gonna be 🍿🍿
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Executing Hassan makes him a martyr. Livestreaming his death dehumanizes us all. 
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Corporate media, Youtubers, all social media influencers should refuse to show the footage. This should be completely blacklisted. This is fascism full-stop. I don’t care how good the $$ is, every single creator and media outlet has the agency and capacity to refuse to participate in this madness.
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Trump Weighs In On Livestreaming Execution: 'There Are 2 Thoughts...'
“I know what the military would like to do, but we’ll make a decision,” President Donald Trump said.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Bwahahahahahaha. Narcissistic LOSER.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Former DOJ official Bruce Swartz explains why Trump’s $5000 “dividend” is illegal and is not covered by immunity from prosecution.  www.justsecurity.org/159770/aucti...
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Auctioning Democracy: Trump’s Promise of a $5,000 “Dividend”
Trump's pledge to pay $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress could violate federal criminal law.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Galloway has hoarded $100-200M, and he is a Flock supporter, falsely claiming surveillance reduces crime. Do you know what actually reduces crime? Taxing the rich and ending poverty. That is the number one way to reduce crime in America. Not spending millions of our tax$$ on a Surveillance State.
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When you think he can't get any worse: he loves Flock
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is horrific. And entirely preventable. That's why they are called VPDs: VACCINE PREVENTABLE DISEASES. RFK Jr is responsible for the suffering and deaths of so many. And many more to come.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you would like to learn more about Orange Shirt Day, which started in Canada - a nation who also has a terrible genocidal legacy of native boarding schools - this is a good place to start:
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Orange Shirt Day - Orange Shirt Society
The story behind the movement that started in Williams Lake.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is Orange Shirt Day, the day we honor indigenous children who were abducted into residential schools. I follow a ton of indigenous creators and yet the content Insta chooses to push today is white Europeans appropriating sacred indigenous tattoos (tavluġun), a closed practice not for us yts.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I also immediately thought of Emma. I think about her protest a lot. And how little the laws have changed. And how unsafe women still are on college campuses despite her bravery and advocacy and the bravery and advocacy of so many victims.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I shit you not, these men see nothing wrong with what they do or say. They do not believe in justice for women and children. They do not believe that the things they do to women and children are a big deal. That’s why he can say something like this out and proud in public.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While I totally appreciate the message of this post, one of the things we're missing is that most men who commit rape don't think what they did was rape. They think these warnings are for other men. And that's a huge huge part of the problem.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a regular reminder that 51% of accounts online are bots. And a portion of the remainder are troll farms running sock puppet accounts. Save your energy and don’t argue with these people because they are not people. They are there to propagandize you or to grift. Or both.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is such a good point. These platforms could easily identify and delete bot accts. They don't bc capitalism: there's no financial incentive to do so.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The renewed political smear campaign against Jack Smith comes as GOP faces massive losses in midterms. It is a distraction and a lie. Smith did his job as a prosecutor — investigated the facts, found evidence of crimes that could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and filed charges.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Political pandering to the religious right, just in time for the midterms.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hitler was a swarthy Österreicher murdering those lacking white-blonde Aryan aesthetics. Miller is the descendant of Belarusian Jews who fled ethnic cleansing and came here as poor immigrants. Hypocrisy don’t matter to sadistic men who are full of hatred and delight in hurting others.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It appears whenever Trump runs into resistance, “national security” becomes the justification. His ballroom. His triumphal arch. And now, banning news outlets from the White House.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Get ready. We will have people in our communities going hungry as the confluence of chaos and cruelty that The GOP has created hits even harder. What are we doing to care for each other? How are we organizing to feed our neighbors?
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tr*mp has lost every single court case on this issue. 2 big takeaways: 1.Dem AGs + Secs of State are HOLDING THE LINE, protecting your rights 2. GOP AGs and SoSs handed over your private info to a lawless tyrant w/o pausing to consider "states' rights" or YOUR rights. Down ballot races matter.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 22/09/2026
Dan Patrick criminal AI deep fakes and also how AI is about to make EVERYTHING even more expensive.
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epistemiccrisis.bsky.social @epistemiccrisis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#greenscreen This video is my opinion 🤓
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How will we clean up Trump's unholy mess? Here are my 10 Commandments for Congress. These are major structural reforms that every midterm candidate should support.
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How to Rebuild America After Trump
How will we clean up Trump's unholy mess?Here are my 10 Commandments for Congress.These are major structural reforms tha
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
MS NOW, CNN & Politico announced they will sue the White House today for banning them, legend 1st and 5th amendment violations.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This was a NintenDON'T.
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The White House Just Tried To Use 'Zelda' To Praise Trump—And It Backfired Spectacularly
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 21/09/2026
NSFW, ICE are lazy trash that interfere with legal immigration to fill their invented quotas. That's why they shot Wilber Garces Perez!
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Obvious grift is obvious. Same reason they allow "prediction markets" which are just unregulated gambling. Same reason Tr*mp had Goya cans on his Oval Office desk in 2017. Same reason he hawked "Tesslers" on the WH lawn. He's a tacky shameless grifter. He's also a violent sadist and POTUS.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This, my friends, is gaslighting. Congress is the top three or four of all time only on abdicating its responsibilities. 
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is not normal. Nothing about this is normal.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Also brace for Tr*mp's narcissistic crashout over this. He's going to absolutely meltdown. The walls are closing in. He will get more desperate, more brazen, more angry, and stoke political violence as much as possible. Do not cave to a bully. We all vote. We make a plan to defend the results.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
GOP information warfare game — distract, deflect, divide. I don’t like what Hasan Piker has said either, but the most important issue this Nov is electing a Congress that will fulfill its duty to check a corrupt president.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yep. The force of corruption is strong with this one.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Beware the social media “influencer.” Many are paid for their endorsements. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u...
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Influencers Have a Lot to Say About Politics. Many Are Quietly Paid for It. (Gift Article)
Their videos have proliferated on social media, but the payments are frequently hidden from viewers.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Paying for votes is a crime for the payer and the recipient 18 USC 597. With five-year statute of limitations, the next DOJ could bring charges. And the conduct would be beyond the scope of presidential immunity for Trump. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s difficult to prosecute a case where no crime was committed. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
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Trump Loyalist Joseph diGenova Quits ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case
The inquiry has sought to link disparate criminal inquiries into the president as a multiyear scheme to damage his political prospects.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Corporate media platformed, sanewashed Tr*mp to millions, for more than a decade. They are willing collaborators. And the dark $$ that runs them, runs a lot of our electeds and social and new media. Billionaires have their fingers in every pie and they made this reality. We have to unmake it.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think about this quote on a daily basis. Solidarity, community, humanity, People Care. These are the way we defeat toxic individualism, capitalism, dehumanization, fascism.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Agree with Amodei. Our government has been captured by billionaires who want to profit from AI. We need common-sense regulation to promote development while protecting the public.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Black Americans do not hang themselves from trees.
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Man Arrested In Hanging Homicide Of 29-Year-Old Black Mother, Tasia Fortune
“We owe it to Ms. Fortune, to her family and to the integrity of this investigation to let the evidence guide us,” Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
While NYPD protected literal Nazis + right wing grifters on 9/11 +25, Tr*mp snoozed through the memorial. Is this greatness? America was a great imperial power manufacturing a disgraceful war-for-profit in the Middle East and now we’re a laughingstock continuing that war-for-profit. Shame on us.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How you speak about homeless people, children, disabled folks reveals the alignment (or misalignment) of your moral compass. If homeless folks upset you, it's bc you see you in them and it terrifies you. In that moment you could extend compassion, or dehumanization. The choice is yours.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Jimmy Kimmel announces his interview with James Talarico has been censored and will not air on television today after Trump’s FCC threatened ABC. It will go on YouTube instead.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Go, Norm. When this chapter of history is written, you will be one of the heroes. What did each of us do in this moment?
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
John 6 is “Jesus feeds the Multitudes” not “Jesus teaches bootstraps”. Proverbs 19:17: Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender. The Bible is chalk-full of warnings to the MAGA “Christians”. Sheep from the goats. Depart from Him, he never knew you.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Paying parents who care for their children may be a good idea (though not just parents who are married), but it is our representatives in Congress and not the President who has the power of the purse. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones (Gift Article)
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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