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Nerdie Barbie

@nerdiebarbie.bsky.social
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Gen X history nerd making the most of her library card | Minnesota Nice DFL'er 💙 | Mom | Presbyterian who loves you just as you are 🌈 | Values her education even as she continues to pay her $150k student loan debt while not actively using her degrees

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Did Donald Trump engage in insider trading and market manipulation, or was he really dedicated to his tariff regime? Something doesn’t smell right here, and that’s why we must get to the bottom of this! Let’s break it down ⬇️
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Nerdie Barbie @nerdiebarbie.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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a woman in a black dress says it-it-the-f-it-flam-flames
ALT: a woman in a black dress says it-it-the-f-it-flam-flames
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I know what I can do as an individual person. I want to know what I can do as a state legislator. Because this is the whole thing, we’re over if we let this stand or continue.
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
💡..sharing MK “disappearing”, honoring the courage of those who speak out.. collective awareness & action are mandatory in holding perpetrators accountable, preventing further erosion of civil liberties😢🤬🇺🇸
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
US added to the global human rights watchlist due to declining civil liberties.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is not normal.
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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 01/03/2025
Copy of early 1940s cartoon by Dr. Seuss satirizing the American First movement. Updated 6/22/2018. For me now the twin horror comes to the fore, not only of the lack of empathy inherent in othering children but in the instruction of that behavior to youths. Hate is taught. Education unlearns it.
“.. and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones… but those were Foreign Children and it didn’t really matter.”
Updated Dr.Seuss cartoon by altLofC 6/22/2018, grandmother seated reading story to two children. Boy is wearing a MAGA hat, the girl looks worried. The grandmother is wearing a red sweater that says America first. The book is titled Don the wolf. The book originally was Adolf the wolf and there was no cap on the boy,  otherwise it remains unchanged.
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Nerdie Barbie @nerdiebarbie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
enddei.ed.gov #justkeepspamming
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MySageAdvice🌊🔵🫶🏼 @mysageadvice.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Open the picture fully …. The orange guy is putting up a DEI portal for complaints ~ since we are boycotting the day tomorrow let’s flood with complaints!!!! 💥💥💥💥ACTION!!! 🆘
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Martha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.
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Alt US Coast Guard @altcoast.altgov.info · 26/02/2025
(1/5) Updated Suicide Prevention Resources - please reach out if you're struggling! National Crisis Line: 988 For Veterans: 988, press 1 National Text Line: text "HOME" to 741741 The above lines are the only ones tied into the National 988 network. All the rest in this thread are not.
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Nerdie Barbie @nerdiebarbie.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I'm grateful for this space. Thank you, Bluesky.
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Nerdie Barbie @nerdiebarbie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Wise words from my favorite senator...
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Sheila Foster @sheilarose.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I needed to hear this voice and these words at this moment. "This chapter will not be written simply by whoever occupies the Oval Office or wealthiest among us. The American story will be written by you, by we the people." Thank you, VP Kamala Harris. #NAACPImageAwards youtu.be/bnmKwxjMKgs?...
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Kamala Harris Delivers Uplifting Message While Accepting Chairman’s Award | NAACP Image Awards '25
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Worst. Episode. EVER.
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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/02/2025
One was fired by email at 12:47 a.m. Another wept as security escorted her from the office. A third frantically tried to fill a prescription after she got a 24-hour notice that her health care was ending. These workers are grappling with the Trump administration’s war on the federal bureaucracy.
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Federal Workers Grapple With Trump’s War on Bureaucracy
One thing lost in the Trump administration’s war on the federal bureaucracy is the collective voice of the employees. But some have begun to speak out.
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Coop @linjurz.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There is no doubt about it that he is reckless. No one can move this fast on a state of affairs without consequences. Change takes time to be successful in the real world.
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Nerdie Barbie @nerdiebarbie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Me arguing with MAGA people on my small town newspaper's Facebook page.
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Nerdie Barbie @nerdiebarbie.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Scary sh*t is happening...
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Nerdie Barbie @nerdiebarbie.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A highly recommended read for this moment in history. I listened to the audiobook on Libby. It was only 2-hours long, but I will be purchasing a hard copy - it requires rereading with a highlighter and note-taking. Any suggestions for a private bookstore who ships that I can order it from?
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AltDOI @altdoi.altgov.info · 05/02/2025
🦬 This land is your land. This government is your government. Don't let them take it without a fight.
The Alabama Hills near Death Valley National Park.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Had a convo recently where the other person--an educated liberal!--was shocked to learn <2% of Americans are trans, puberty blockers are temporary & reversible, and virtually no minors get gender-affirming surgeries. The right is so, so good at inflating things into boogeymen.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/02/2025
For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
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40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Black History Month&nbsp;is not only a celebration of the&nbsp;rich history of Black&nbsp;life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder&nbsp;to engage every day with that history as we ...
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