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Lucy Rose

@lrosea.bsky.social
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Politics obsessive, economics nerd, writer, reader, musician

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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I find it so weird how many women, even in very progressive environments, reject the feminist label. I think being a feminist means believing that all genders deserve the same rights and choices. A woman can be a stay at home mom, or a CEO — feminists believe women have the right to chose which one.
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Kim in Lubbock @kiminlubbock.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I hate when they take away things you were just starting to really enjoy, like your favorite TV show or democracy.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 25/11/2024
“a better future isn’t possible” is explicitly a right wing view and everyone needs to do a better job rejecting it for themselves and drumming it out of younger people
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
One of the most manifestly unqualified appointments probably ever. And I’m not convinced there will be enough votes in the senate to take him down
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
…. This is such a depressing statement. I can’t believe it’s about America
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
And it's really been under-radar that the far-right got some key allies in literally some of the most important local offices that will oversee elections going forward; we'll hear a lot about Maricopa in 2026 & 2028 that'll fulfill the prediction of the first part of your post.
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Trump Allies Gain Power Over Elections in Arizona’s Largest County
Justin Heap, a lawmaker aligned with election deniers, and like-minded Republicans won key Maricopa County offices. Voting advocates hope that guardrails will protect local elections.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We cannot accept a status quo in our elections where if one side wins they have to scratch and claw to withstand lies, illegal challenges, and violent mobs. And if the other side is successful, they're invited to measure the drapes and gather around the fireplace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCTy...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
There's a reason democracies don't let people who tried coups back into power.
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
… this is the first nominee to make me go WTAF. He does not seem qualified enough for one of the most important Cabinet positions. Senate republicans, if they have any shred of integrity left, should vote him down
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11/11/2024
anyway, i'm going to stop talking about it for today but a major source of power for authoritarian regimes is their ability to project that they're a steamroller who can't be stopped and have thought of anything, and that's just simply not going to be true of these guys
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
My impression is this isn’t as bad as it could be, anyone have more in depth thoughts?
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This has not broken me, but it has stopped me in my tracks and made me think about how easily some purported journalists would just go along with whatever transpires in the coming weeks, months, and years.
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This is terrifying. And the worst part is that it’s not impossible.
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/11/2024
Had Avery Davis Bell had a miscarriage in Boston, where she lived until 2020, doctors could snap into action. But because she was having a miscarriage in a hospital in Georgia, surgery had to wait.
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Bleeding and in pain, a woman endures a harrowing wait for miscarriage care due to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law | CNN
Had Avery Davis Bell had a miscarriage in Boston, where she lived until 2020, doctors could snap into action. But because she was having a miscarriage in a hospital in Georgia, surgery had to wait.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/11/2024
If people keep leaving Twitter the chuds will come over here because they can only exist in opposition to something. There’s no internal culture for them without content to get performatively mad about, and a Twitter without everyone else means they can’t keep dropping rage coins into the machine.
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This is really, really bad
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
100% co-sign this
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
A call your reps situation to vote no. theintercept.com/2024/11/10/t...
theintercept.com
Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush His Political Enemies
A bill that would let Donald Trump unilaterally revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits is being fast-tracked through Congress.
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
It’s DOA in the house and the senate. Abolishing the 22nd amendment isn’t going to get a 2/3 majority in a single chamber. Even if it somehow makes it to the states, it will never get the 2/3 majority. Still, we should target any senator who even hints at supporting that
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
“I consider him like Hitler, but I voted for the man.” Put it on America’s tombstone lol
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I am sorry but if you think someone is like Hitler and vote for them anyway you are a terrible person who is either too ignorant to understand the comparison you’re making or fully know and just don’t care
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I have to say, climate change is what I am the most concerned with under a Trump presidency. Everything else is going to be really, really bad, but hopefully it will be fixable. With climate change? We can’t wait another 4 years. We can’t afford for it to get so bad that he has no choice but to act
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
God grant me the serenity to accept I am cooked, The courage to say fuck it we ball, And the wisdom to know when we are so back
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Double standards are very, very real
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I’d only want to live in interesting times if it meant I learned magic was real. Interesting times without magic is just sad. And depressing. And scary. I’m sure that’s the case in magical worlds as well, but at least with magic there’s something special.
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
May all the NIMBYS go down
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Please be true. Please nominate as many representatives as possible. And please let Dems flip the house seats and take the majority.
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Didn’t remember this. This is bad.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
This post did numbers on the other place but I feel like it should do even better here
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
This was reassuring. Still, it feels rather like standing outside in a thunderstorm and hoping lightning won’t hit you. I think his actions on climate change will be especially bad, and his sympathies for authoritarian rulers are a little terrifying.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Thinking about it, a Haley-Biden election probably sees her winning NY
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Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Bluesky is now the 2nd most downloaded app. Twitter is 29th. techcrunch.com/2024/10/18/b...
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Bluesky surges into the top 5 as X changes blocks, permits AI training on its data | TechCrunch
Social networking startup Bluesky, which just reported a gain of half a million users over the past day, has now soared into the top five apps on the U.S.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Thank you to the people who built BlueSky.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
now that I’ve had a few days to process the election, I think my reaction is: let blue states cook no more of this “our infrastructure project needs 80 studies” and refusal to build housing. it’s time to turn the blue states/cities into a utopia and advertising point for dems
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I'm tuning out a lot of political stuff right now, and one filter is that I'm not interested in anyone, from centrist liberal to democratic socialist, who doesn't understand the necessity of building coalitions with people you only semi-agree with. It's stunning to me how many people don't get that.
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beverly parrish🦋📎🌊 @beverlyaparrish.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it own. (Thurgood Marshall) Happy Sunday.
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Exactly!
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
tip for newbies: subscribe to this MAGA block list to preemptively block MAGAts on here :) (sorry I forgot to include the link before)
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
WTAF. Dear god, I really hope it’s not him. The importance of a central bank’s independence is something you learn about in introductory macro!
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 10/11/2024
2 tips to immediately begin protecting your peace here on bsky: - go to moderation settings, create a new list for trolls, and subscribe to block anyone you add. Add anyone who disturbs your peace, do not respond, do not engage. Friends who trust you can sub as well. - sub to this list now:
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Hi all! -I’m Lucy Rose - I’m completely obsessed with politics, economics, and policy - I love music, especially singing - I’m a reader and writer who is particularly fantasy obsessed. - the only physical art form I am (somewhat) good at is photography
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I think it’s very much an educational failure! It’s bad that most people don’t understand the impact of a tax, or what a tariff is and why it’s bad, or what causes inflation
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
People talk a lot about financial literacy, but I think economic literacy is just as important
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
There were many huge down ballot successes.
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Puri 🤍 @purilly.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I love overly kind protagonists in fiction that power through and infecting other characters with kindness because they taught me that it's okay to be nice in an unkind world and that it's not a weakness
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
This man is an idiot. Following his ideas is stupid. American democracy is not dead yet, and will not die unless we let it.
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Proud of my governor. We should not allow a single dollar of state money to be used to assist mass deportations
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Lucy Rose @lrosea.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I am so sick of Democrats / liberals acting like we have to resign ourselves to the worst possible outcomes of a Trump presidency. We have agency. We are not powerless. There are two years until we can retake control of one or both chambers of Congress. The last thing we can do is give up.
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