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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 13h

she praised Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park, California, as an “amazing church” that “stayed open” during the COVID-19 pandemic... Godspeak Church’s actions led to Zacharia “getting involved in the church” www.christianpost.com/news/katie-z...

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3. Christian mother whose children attend private school
During her appearance on "We the People with Gates Garcia" podcast, Zacharia repeatedly mentioned her Christian faith. When discussing what motivates her to remain active in the political scene, she praised Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park, California, as an "amazing church" that
"stayed open" during the COVID-19
pandemic when state and county health orders barred indoor worship services.
Godspeak Church's actions led to Zacharia "getting involved in the church" and motivated her to decide
"I'm going to fight for this" even though
"culture's going to tell me I'm wrong; my government's going to tell me I'm wrong."

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh really, google AI? Is this that “super intelligence”?

Screen shot showing google search results for “Mike Caruso allegations”.

It says, “Frankly, no significant or widespread public allegations, scandals, or official misconduct charges are documented in major news sources regarding Mike Caruso (such as the Florida State Representative or other prominent figures of that name).
If you are looking for information about a specific individual, local event, or a lesser-known report, please provide more context (such as a state, office, or specific year) so the query can be more accurately addressed.”

Beneath that there are the search results beginning with an entry “State asks court to put ex-Palm
Beach clerk Caruso in jail
4 days ago - The result is to allow an individual strongly…”

More search results for “Mike Caruso allegations” beneath AI saying there are none.

State asks court to put ex-Palm
Beach clerk Caruso in jail
4 days ago - Michael Caruso, the former Palm Beach County clerk of court... Mike Caruso jailed while he awaits trial on child sex abuse allegations.
Sun Sentinel
https://www.sun-sentinel.com
After backlash, Palm Beach County GOP pulls support for Mike Caruso 4 days ago - And if that means not campaigning for or supporting one of the candidates who has these serious allegations against them, we're going to stand ...
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Facebook • South Florida Sun Sentinel
1.2K+ reactions • 4 days ago
Suspended Palm Beach County
Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso said h... palmbeachpost.com Caruso has not publicly responded to the charges in detail in the available reporting. Prior allegations from his first ...
The Palm Beach Post
https://www.palmbeachpost.com
Police release 2013 report on Mike Caruso molestation allegations
Aug 24, 2026 - Caruso was recently arrested on new, separate allegations of child molestation. An anonymous caller told the Florida Department of Children and ...

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Protect Texas Children” thinks “A Day In The Life Of Marlon Bundo” is unsuitable for children. That was the Pence family’s pet rabbit.

Screen shot of “protect Texas children” web site with list of books marked unsuitable for children and suggesting you might want to challenge them. This includes “A Day in the life of Marlon bundo” by Marlon Bundo

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I looked up one guy. Here’s what he says. He was asked about Piker. Doesn’t seem like twitch bro has been a massive focus of anyone’s campaign. That would be weird.

This week I met with congregants from Beth Menachem Chabad in Newton. I listened to individuals describe specific experiences of antisemitism, including verbal threats and vehicular intimidation, vandalism, and ongoing insecurity at their places of worship. Government and society must address the re-emergence of this ancient hate through education, social media reforms, and leadership.
On Fox News Sunday this past weekend, I was asked about Hasan Piker, the popular social media influencer who has been campaigning with some Democrats. I rejected his rhetoric, including excuses for 9/11, venom directed against Israel and Jews, and his celebration of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Afterwards, in a new video livestream, Piker said the following while placing the picture of a Jewish elected official behind him:
"If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews."
This bigotry has no place in the Democratic Party.
I reject it, as I rejected Graham Platner's. The Democratic Party needs to be able to reach young voters who are angry at the status quo. Viciously scapegoating Jews or Israel for American challenges is a toxic and self-defeating attempt to do that, which every Democrat should condemn.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Screen shot from article re. Mike Pompeo ties to nippon steel and the moonies.

“Five months after the July 2022 assassination of Shinzo Abe by the son of a Unification Church follower, Pompeo addressed the Second Conference of Hope for the Realisation of a Heavenly Unified World at the cult's headquarters in South Korea.
"In the wake of the tragic assassination of Prime Minister Abe, the Japanese Communist Party has been attacking the Unification Church. The JCP has alleged the church is engaged in corruption and is a threat to society and that it undermines Japan's interests. Nothing could be further from the truth. We must not allow this to happen," Pompeo said, according to a Unification Church transcript.
Pompeo's staunch defence goes against the findings of a yearlong investigation by the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida into thousands of allegations of social harm caused by the Unification Church and its offshoots, particularly through predatory and fraudulent fundraising. In October 2023, the government concluded that the
branch of the cult
was an antisocial organsaun and sought a court…”

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes, let’s move beyond that. You’re just repeating yourself & avoiding a reckoning with the bigger picture. “…there might be another mechanism at play here, which is distinctly Canadian: a confidence, or "smugness," that Canada is "better" than the USA.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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“When our colleague assumed that there is no Christian nationalism in Canada because
"We're too educated," we wondered how the influence of Canadian Christian nationalism
organizations like Action4Canada and the power of TBA was invisible to our colleague, and perhaps other Canadians. Our argument here is that the mechanisms of identification
with Christian nationalism, as articulated by Miller (2022), allow individuals to support parts of the project without necessarily knowing or naming the project as Christian nationalism. And yet, there might be another mechanism at play here, which is distinctly Canadian: a confidence, or "smugness," that Canada is "better" than the USA.”

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ku Klux Klan 'American First' Parade (Original Caption) Binghamton, NY: Ku Klux Klan stages an 'America First' parade in Binghamton, NY. Photograph. 1920's.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This guy is a real peach. www.justice.gov/archives/opa...

Screen cap of FBI press release: New Jersey Man Charged with Soliciting Destruction of Energy Facilities

Thursday, July 11, 2024

“"Andrew Takhistov was allegedly on his way to Ukraine to join the Russian Volunteer Corps when we arrested him on charges of recruiting an individual to destroy an electrical substation here in the United States in order to advance his white supremacist ideology," said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. "I am grateful to the
FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force for their exceptional work disrupting this dangerous plot."
"This complaint alleges that the defendant's posts referenced Adolf Hitler, encouraged violence against Black and Jewish communities, praised mass shooters, and discussed causing death and destruction on a large scale," said U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger for the District of New Jersey. "The defendant was allegedly enroute to join the Russian Volunteer Corps, which he described as specializing in assassinations, attacks on power grids, and other infrastructure sabotage, so that he could act on his violent plans. We will not tolerate these kinds of alleged terroristic threats, and working with our partners, we will always be ready to root out and bring to justice any
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who attempts to carry out these acts."

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I was just looking at photos I have from a year ago. This was classic. Donald v. Fruit

Screen shot of article about Trump deposition.
Trump: It's worse than a tomato, it's other things also. But tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it's very dangerous. There was an alert out that day.
Dictor: Who were you speaking to when you said...
Trump: The audience.
Dictor: So you were speaking to the audience when you said if they saw someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them, would you?
Trump: That was to the audience. It was said sort of in jest. Buy maybe, you know, a little truth to it. It's very dangerous stuff. You can get killed with those things. ... / wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit. And some fruit is a lot worse than - tomatoes are bad by the way. But it's very dangerous.... they were going to hit - they were going to hit very hard.
Amazing, no?
There is a long history of American politicians being barraged by fruit.

Here's the full - and fully epic - back-and-forth between Trump and Benjamin Dictor, an attorney representing the protestors.
Dictor: Okay. And you said that, 'If you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, just knock the crap out of them would you.' That was your statement?
Trump: Oh, yeah. It was very dangerous.
Dictor: What was very dangerous?
Trump: We were threatened.
Dictor: With what?
Trump: They were going to throw fruit. We were threatened. We had a threat.
Dictor: How did you become aware that there was a threat that people were going to throw fruit?
Trump: We were told. I thought Secret Service was involved in that, actually. And you get hit with fruit, it's - no - it's very violent stuff. We were on alert for that.
Trump attorney Jeffrey Goldman: A tomato is a fruit after all, I guess.... It has seeds.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What the heck is going on with this echinacea (purple cone flower)? 🌱 They form some very interesting mutants.

Photo of echinacea aka purple cone flower seed heads. Several of them appear to have smaller seed heads sprouting out of the primary. It’s like a bunch of baby bud cactus but a flower seed head.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sometimes I call her Stompy. She guards the garden from biscuit missiles and flying cherry tomatoes. #Dogs #Gardening #GardeningWithDogs

Brown short haired dog boxer mix standing in the middle of dahlia and zinnia plants.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is important! It’s about men and boys too. It’s time men paid attention to reproductive health and education. These are not “women’s issues”.

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“The male health module, according to the federal grant funding notice, includes an emphasis on understanding how testosterone is a hormone that is responsive to sleep, physical activity and environmental factors. Instruction must include the physiology of arousal, and address how "repeated or artificially stimulated arousal may affect neural development and behavior over time," seemingly referring to masturbation.
Testosterone has been a heavy focus of the Trump administration. HHS Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. frequently refers to lower sperm counts among men, including teen males, despite no scientific evidence backing up those claims when it comes to young men. He cites it as a reason for birth rates that have remained flat or lowered slightly every year since 2015, though experts say the lower national birth rate is actually because of the lower teen pregnancy and birth rates.
U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also announced last week that military men over the age of 30 would receive annual testosterone level checks, which doctors say could actually be counterproductive to military readiness and could risk infertility.”

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Andrew Tate got arrested today. I think it might be for crimes against boys’ fashion this time.

Andrew Tate being handcuffed as two other men look on.

He’s wearing a skin tight purple shirt unbuttoned to just below his cleavage with calf length tight gray pants (looks like pixie cut at old navy, but 6 inches shorter), and a slim elongated toe loafer.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

See. Stupid misogynistic shit, as expected.

Screen shot of bean dip’s post.
“Brian (Uar, Son of Tuire... @cheflu... • 1d There has never been a time on earth where 45 year old women are more sexy than they are right now I am living my best life
•• •
Bean Dip @beanlump.bsky.social • 20h
Aging is realizing that I am constantly surrounded by babes.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

President Donald Chump “Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!! DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO FOLLOW. So sad!President DONALD J. TRUMP”

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Trump’s Truth post on Lindsay Graham.

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@realDonaldTrump • July 12, 2026, 3:21
AM
Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!! DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO FOLLOW. So sad!President DONALD J.
TRUMP

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A whole bunch of people fell for charisma & someone play acting exactly what they said they wanted. He made them feel special & people around them gave constant praise & money. They had a sense of purpose & visions of saving the world. Unfortunately, people often can’t see 🚩 or admit their mistakes

Screen image of a post on X by Ken Klippenstein. It reads, “Let me know if my Graham Platner apology is debasing and self-flagellating enough”
Beneath that is an image link of Graham Platner to Ken Klippenstein’s Substack full of defensive nonsense and utter lack of self awareness.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly in my garden. 🌱🐞🐛

Spicebush swallowtail butterfly clinging it to an evergreen bush.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

They’ve seriously lost their minds.

From the article:

The dispute follows a pressure campaign from Concerned Women for America, a conservative Christian organization that has urged Irish dance officials to change their transgender participation policies. The group also circulated what it described as an IDTANA inclusivity statement, dated July 2022, that says the organization is "committed to preserving and promoting Irish Dance in an environment that is inclusive and free of discrimination and harassment." The statement says the organization supports a culture where dancers, families, teachers, and volunteers feel safe and respected "regardless of age, ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, income, race or sexual orientation, opportunities to learn and grow as dancers and people." It also says IDTANA is
"supportive of including all those who want to learn and or compete."

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Another color variety of salpiglossis popped up in my front garden. #zone6 #zone6b #SWPA #bloomscrolling #Pittsburgh 🌱

Close photo of salpiglossis garden bloom. Intense yellow veining from center to almost white field on petals.

In context. Yellow salpiglossis bloom among pink and white snap dragons, dancing petticoats cosmo, garlic chives, and love in the mist/nigella.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Did you see their offerings? Dehydrated cocktail garnishes. Yummy. “Our goal is simple: turn the harvest into products people love—while creating value for everyone across the supply chain.”

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“foodservice operators, maiR?facturers, and community
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programs. From fresh to frozen to dried, our products deliver the quality, flavor, and consistency your customers expect-backed by scalable, sustainable sourcing.
Fresh
• Retail: 8.8oz & 16oz (Growers Choice)
• Foodservice: 2lb & 4lb (Growers
Choice)
• Charitable Purchasing: Bulk options
Frozen
• Manufacturing: Processed, Puree, or
IQF formats for year-round applications
Dried
• Retail: 5oz, 6oz, 12oz, 20oz, and more
- available for Private Label, White Label, and specialty creations
• Foodservice: Dehydrated cocktail garnishes and culinary dried products”

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Met a new friend in my garden last night. Reddish-brown stag beetle. They must have been munching on the old tree roots from a maple I had cut down a few years ago. Thank you, reddish-brown stag beetle. May your babies eat well. 🌱

Brownish-red stag beetle on a woven armchair.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

First sunflower of the season. I guess it’s not one of the pollen free ones I bought to plant this year. #Pittsburgh #Zone6 #Zone6b #SWPA 🌱

Sunflower in bloom in a flower garden of cornflowers, nicotiana, delphinium, and various other flowering plants that have yet to bloom.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

i see what you did there.🤣 Safety first! #Yinzer #Pittsburgh

Photo of toddler sized play car falling into a caved in sidewalk with cones on either side.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

There’s always a spot to garden. Sunflowers, lambs ears, Johnnie jump-up, cosmos, moss rose, snow on the mountain, and a dahlia 🌱 #crackgarden #Pittsburgh #zone6 #zone6b

A variety of plants growing out of sidewalk cracks. Sunflowers, lambs ears, Johnnie jump-up, cosmos, moss rose, snow on the mountain, and a dahlia

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

For the past couple of years, I’ve done a seedling sale. herbs, perennials, hardy annuals, variety of veg. Funds my obsession. This is my favorite time. The last week or so, I’ve been doing pay anything, or nothing. I get to make a lot of people happy & excited about gardening & trying new things!

Photo of seedlings for sale opening days. Little cups and containers of young plants along a sidewalk in front of a garden and up the path.

Another photo of opening days of plant sale. Boxes and trays of plants line both sides of the sidewalk.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

#flowerfriday #bloomscrolling #zone6 #zone6b #pansies #SWPA #Pittsburgh 🌱 Varieties: Brush Strokes. Viola cornuta (yes they smell of chocolate), Imperial™ Antique Shades Viola x wittrockiana, Rococo Frilled Mix Viola X wittrockiana

Big pot of pansy flowers with Shasta daisies in the foreground, sweet peas, nicotiana, delphinium, and bachelor buttons in the background.

Two big pots of pansies in bloom with sweet peas in the background.

Closer image of pansies with two red ones standing out in the sunshine.

Closer look at pansies. Brush strokes and a hybrid yellow with a purple center and touches pink on upper petals.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

More salpiglossis. This is exciting. I can’t wait to see more of them. These are in a container with other plants. I have some in ground that seem to be growing stronger. #Zone6 #Zone6b #SWPA #Bloomscrolling #salpiglossis 🌱

Salpiglossis flower cream color with yellow center and veining.

Salpiglossis flower with pinkish purple petals and center that transitions from yellow to red veining.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Is he talking about this study? www.thelancet.com/article/S014...

Screen shot of study:
“deficiencies, diarrhoeal diseases, lower respiratory infections, and maternal and perinatal conditions.
Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14051 750
(uncertainty interval 8475990-19662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4537157 (3124796-5910
791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030.
Interpretation
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the abrupt funding cuts announced and implemented in the first half of 2025 are reversed, a staggering number of avoidable deaths could occur by 2030.

Funding
The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, UK
Medical Research Council, and EU Horizon Europe.

Introduction
For the past 20 years, the USA has been the leading government donor to humanitarian response plans, development aid, and multilateral development banks, mainly through the US Agency for…”

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

He clearly missed the six month benchmark. He gave himself until August to dazzle us with his grass and splendor of our parklands. I don’t think he kept to the project plan. He wanted to put in sprinkler systems. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Screen shot of paragraphs in the article attached:
“life. Do you know that?...And, the grass here died about 40 years ago. So we're gonna be rebuilding all of your parks, and it's gonna happen fast," the president continued.
Trump then told the crowd, "So you do the job on safety, and I'll get this place fixed up physically, and we're gonna be so proud of it at the end of six months, but let's say at the end of a year, this place will be maxed out in terms of beauty."

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

First bloom on a challenge plant this year. Sapiglossis also known as painted tongues. I put these through the wringer. I had no idea what I was doing and made mistakes. I guess they can be somewhat forgiving. I can’t wait to see what other colors come up. #Zone6 #Zone6b #SWPA #Bloomscrolling 🌱

Strait on photo of flower. A trumpet shaped bloom with deep veining texture. Color blends yellow center, red veining on overall purple flower.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is my friend, Shoebox. He’s one of the best boys ever in my neighborhood.

Maltese and Yorkshire terrier mix little dog striking a pose on my front cement steps.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Go Canadian air! Everyone northeast of the Ohio river, point your fans southeast. 😜

Wind map of south east North America showing cool Canadian air meeting wet hot air from the south forming a like of thunderstorms heading towards Washington DC.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I don’t know. It looks like a little more than 60% chance to me, but it could just miss them. Best to gathered everyone outside and see what happens. This is why they want to get rid of these public services. It’s not to cover for symptoms of climate change.

Screen shot of Doppler radar projected band of storms set to hit DC at around 9:30pm.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I regret that I didn’t save seeds from this beauty.

Purple cone flower aka echinacea. One bloom mutated as if 2 flowers that didn’t fully separate and share central reproductive elements.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Someone had to standup for the minis.

Brown ceramic dachshund shaped planter with a single flower growing from its head.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I had run out of my medication and didn’t have any antacids a couple of weeks ago. Bedtime salsa isn’t a great idea. I ate a couple of radishes. I was fine. I like growing them because they grow really fast in the early spring when you need a quick payoff. Delilah likes them too.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Go home sunflower, you’re drunk.

Sunflower growing up, then down, then up again.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Where do you think Donald wants to put the Women’s History Museum? Any guesses? Could these fuckers get any more obvious & pathetic? It just reeks of fear & desperation. Oh you’re dying & can’t afford healthcare? Well we kept women out of a museum about women & put it at the bottom of the Potomac…

The Smithsonian American Women's History Museum was first authorized by Congress in 2020, alongside a Museum of the American Latino. That second museum has stalled, as Democrats accuse Republicans of delaying progress by excluding it from the current bill on the table. Congress now holds the key to approve construction for both museums on the National Mall in Washington. The current version, amended by Republicans, also grants Trump the ability to designate an alternate location for the women's museum.
Despite the roadblocks to its physical construction, digital exhibitions from the women's history museum are available online now, as are classroom resources for teachers and a state-by-state guide of women's history in America.

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Grumble Kitty @grumblekitty.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It’s an interesting read. So much has gone wrong in the approach to autism. It’s insane. It’s got people’s brains and the system completely flummoxed.

Results
Researchers in our sample represented a group of participants that had already indicated some level of interest in producing knowledge about community engagement because of their prior participation in our survey. We found that this group, in their responses to our questions, pointed to specific examples of how engagement with community members, including autistic adults and children, service providers, and parents, shaped their research programmes in ways that mattered for the ethical implications of those programmes. This included changes in their thought processes, style of investigating problems, routine research practices, and research designs. Respondents explained that rather than simply informing researchers about alternative values related to autism or providing supplementary perspectives on research outcomes or dissemination of results, autistic or caregiver collaborators offered input that challenged and changed the researchers' prior assumptions about autism, beliefs about what research participation entailed, and ideas about how to obtain the most valid results.

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