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Emily

@emdem29.bsky.social
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Gamer. Reader. ELCA Lutheran Deacon. Extremist for love. she/her/hers

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
YES! The Hastert Rule is THE SOLE REASON the House did not pass immigration reform in 2013-2014 when Boehner had every opportunity to pass immigration reform. Even factoring out the pedophilia (which you shouldn't), he did just as much damage as Gingrich did.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It should have upended his LIFE but because he is a rich white man he got to leave public office and rake in more $$$ as a lobbyist. Only 13 months served, and that for hush-money not the fucking CHILD sex abuse.
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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ArE wE sUrE cHrIsTiAn NaTiOnaLiSm Is ReAl?????? Christian nationalism: A cultural framework that idealizes and advocates for the fusion of a particular expression of Christianity in US civic life & demands the gov't at all levels protect and preserve this fusion. kettering.org/five-element...
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Magic story for this set is literally, Men will destroy the entire Multiverse including the woman he supposedly loves rather than go to therapy.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Twitty is AFK @twittysuch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
if you're a millenial who can't quite let harry potter go because you're worried you'll have to build an entirely new personality, i cannot recommend leaning into pokemon enough.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yet ANOTHER person in my community who has passed from cardiac arrest. And one in the hospital. The human psyche is not built to handle the volume of trauma and sorrow we're facing now. Please take care of one another. Take care of yourselves.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/09/2026
An alleged attack on Democratic Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton remains under investigation but the incident has made one thing clear: Acton’s closer-than-expected race against Republican Vivek Ramaswamy has become extraordinarily toxic.
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With Ohio’s governorship up for grabs, a toxic race turns violent
An alleged assailant forced his way Sunday toward Democratic candidate Amy Acton at a county fair, officials and witnesses said. Authorities said he was carrying two pistols and a Taser.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 26/08/2026
Barber says a church that doesn’t stand with immigrants “being terrorized” should “take church off the sign and put ‘club’ up instead.”
Rev. Barber standing next to a group of activists and clergy.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hey @docsaico.bsky.social / other cooking peeps - what is the way to get breading to stay on porkchops while we cook them? It's NEVER worked for the hubs; it always sloughs off and sticks to the pan.
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You can now search which businesses in your area are collaborating with ICE, thanks to a new project from @theappeal.org 🔗 theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...
Background: deli store front | text: A NEW PROJECT ALLOWS YOU SEARCH LOCAL BUSINESSES TO FIND OUT WHO'S COLLABORATING WITH ICE
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Smarter people have said it before and will say it after me, but I am once again reckoning with the fact that everything Christian nationalism promises its adherents is exactly what Jesus Himself rejected during the temptation. Security, physical safety for me not for thee, political power, etc
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Exciting update: I now *have written*!
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Last complaint, I promise, but HOW do you read "I am off tomorrow and will return to this Saturday or Sunday" and then reply "I have free time tomorrow, can we have a call?" I am OFF. OH EFF EFF off. aka Not working.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I have a parishioner who, MULTIPLE times a day, sends out incredibly depressing news articles. Usually with no added commentary or context. I know he means well, but it feels so bad to constantly get these. I'm already working with migrants! I already got arrested! What more do you want??
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I do not want to write. I want to *have written.*
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm asking you to join the movement. breachrepairers.org 100 Days, 1000 Marches to the polls. We can't and won't be silent anymore. The right to vote is sacred. Help protect it.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I am SO used to having to open pill bottles with the child safety "technology" that I find myself always pushing down on twist-top things. Like my smoothie bottle. And then it won't open. Really freaking annoying. Any other #chronicillness folks do this??
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
So we DON'T have money to provide any new housing vouchers for the unhoused in the budget but we DO have money to drastically overpay for apartments for NG troops who do not need to be here.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Paleo Pines 🦖 @paleopines.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
When we said soon, we meant VERY soon! 🤭 Our latest update, including tons of exciting new additions supported by our Kickstarter campaign backers, will be launching on July 13th! 🦖 💫 See you then ranchers! 🤠
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Strider @reluctantranger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
400 masked cowardly Patriot Front bros walking through D.C. once, then fleeing ain’t shit, peeps. They are a tiny fetid drop in the American bucket. Remember Minneapolis at -20F. We are bigger, braver, and stronger. By a mile.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 04/07/2026
We had dinner with my Chinese immigrant in-laws last night, and we talked about America. My MIL said that living in America, a place that values freedom, gave her permission to become the person she wanted to be. If you’re looking for something to celebrate today, I think it’s a good place to start.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 02/07/2026
A debate over Matthew 25 has been brewing in Congress over the last year. It’s pitting mainline pastors, Black protestants and the pope against evangelical politicians put on the defensive amid outspoken religious criticisms of President Donald Trump’s policies. religionnews.com/2026/07/01/i...
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The Bible verses dividing Washington: How Matthew 25 became a political litmus test
(RNS) — 'He told me that Matthew 25 was about individuals, and not nations,' Sen. Raphael Warnock said, referring to Speaker Mike Johnson. 'The text actually says nations.' Warnock added: “It's a ver...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I believe he owed his constituents more transparency early on. But people should not have to resign to need a period to take care of what is a disability, which is protected for now under civil rights. bsky.app/profile/brad...
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm the social justice minister at my church, and I am looking for suggestions for an advocacy action we can push for July and #DisabilityPrideMonth . (For June, we asked folks to comment on a HUD regulation about housing for the trans community). What you got?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2026
absolutely. i think that there should be more of these big, federally organized civic activities. an annual fair where each state showcases their best food and fare is actually a great idea.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Vought in particular makes me sick to my stomach because his child DIRECTLY BENEFITTED from clinical research. Talk about pulling the ladder up behind you.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The heart nose has my entire LIFE
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Lord have mercy.
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PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I wonder if dead naming their Trans employees during Pride month was advice given to Wizards of the Coast by the "union avoidance" firm Fisher Phillips, or whether its just negligence.
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Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Big up @scryfall.com 💞🏳️‍⚧️ ✊ Support Trans Rights in the UK: goodlawproject.org/donate/
The Scryfall front page which has a banner of queer characters/scenes. Above is a link to the Good Law Project listed as "Support Trans Rights in the UK". Spice has drawn a bunch of hearts & flair around the link in the colours of the trans pride flag
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
love when dudes in a meeting repeat the same exact thing I said previously. not angering at all.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Oh, heck yes! Very excited to have this now available in Maryland. Gonna update my family accordingly.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Andy Kim is a good dude. I believe he was the one who was photographed cleaning up the Capitol after J6 too.
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Boring Manager Rob 🅅 @bourboninexile.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
When "homeless working adults with minor-aged children" becomes a distinct administrative category—not an anomaly, but a recognized population requiring its own eligibility framework—you know something is very, very broken in our society.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
So since he has secured his future and protected himself from financial liability now, can he go home? Just retire and fuck off now? Please?
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Brains’re Weird. @greymatters.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Great article here that also manages to highlight how the very best impulses we have as human beings are being exploited by those who never act on those impulses themselves.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
📣 ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SOUTH While Trump’s administration dismantles the Voting Rights Act piece by piece, people across the country are organizing in solidarity, this is YOUR invitation to be part of it.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I think an uncomfortable truth we have to sit with that Biden's CDC had the same rhetoric. Obviously, what RFK Jr says here is horrible but pervelance of eugenics is a both party problem.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Absolutely unconscionable and yet sadly par for the course for this administration.
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Emily @emdem29.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
My oops all carno ranch will take 10!
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Michael Steele @michaelsteele.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This part!
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I think there are plenty of theological-oriented reasons to find the Trump as Christ images offensive. But, I think there’s also a real secular concern about the judgment and stability of a man who earnestly compares himself to God.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/04/2026
ICE agents made nearly 20,000 arrests in D.C., Maryland and Virginia from the beginning of President Trump’s second administration last year through March 10. By comparison, in the last full year of President Biden’s administration, ICE recorded nearly 3,800 arrests in the region.
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ICE arrests in D.C. region reach nearly 20,000 during Trump’s second term
Nearly 60 percent of the more than 19,500 people arrested had no prior criminal record, federal data shows.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
A sticker from ohmygollyembroidery on Etsy that says Trans Lives Are More Important Than Harry Potter.
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