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Proud USAID Brat

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Retired teacher, voracious reader, doting nana, bread baker. Senior dog rescuer, woke feminist but happily married 50+ years. Protester in the 60s & 70s. Still listening to vinyl daily. Embracing my "crone" years. NetGalley reviewer.

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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
American pride plunges to new low under Trump — again www.alternet.org/trump-americ...
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American pride plunges to new low under Trump — again
The year was 2001. The President was a Republican. Nearly nine in ten Americans—87%—said they were extremely or very proud to be an American. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents were all within a...
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Trump's 'invading horde' includes breastfeeding mother stalked by ICE: report www.rawstory.com/trump-immigr...
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Trump's 'invading horde' includes breastfeeding mother stalked by ICE: report
The reality of Donald Trump's immigration crackdown played out in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday when a Honduran mother was forced to raise her right hand and swear an oath while breastfeeding her ei...
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
'Just pardon the salmonella': Trump mocked after golf club is flagged for 18 violations www.alternet.org/trump-golf-c...
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'Just pardon the salmonella': Trump mocked after golf club is flagged for '18 violations'
On Wednesday, June 4, Forbes reported that the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey had been flagged for 18 health violations in an inspection report from the Somerset County Department ...
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Joni Ernst gives mocking 'apology' for haunting 'We're all going to die' comment www.rawstory.com/jonie-ernst-...
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Joni Ernst gives mocking 'apology' for haunting 'We're all going to die' comment
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) was criticized after she offered a "haunting" response to a constituent concerned about health care cuts in the Republican budget bill, and now she's doubling down by giving a f...
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
It's important to know the warning signs.
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People Who Escaped Authoritarian Governments Share How They Knew It Was Time To Go
Know the warning signs.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
1) Send this to a Trumper. 2) Watch their head explode. 3) Thank me later.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
No bailouts for farmers Let them go bankrupt
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Wow, some of these old memes are freaking evergreen.
Meme:

Don't think Republicans
will take away your Social
Security and Medicare?
Bet you didn't think
they'd take away
women's rights either.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.
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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This is beyond terrifying www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface
Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.
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@LaceyPerSista @laceypersista.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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Have A Gay Day @haveagayday.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Never forget
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Red state Dems…
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Teri @daisydo333.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Dear Mike Johnson and friends,
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
My daughter volunteered with AmeriCorps right after she graduated from college. Her work in a battered women's shelter set her on a career path in public service, working with traumatized families. That was 25 years ago and I couldn't be prouder of her but America is profoundly broken.
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God @thegodshow.com · 26/05/2025
Why are people saying Bluesky is dying? I heard it just got another huge influx of users because X is down all the time. Wait…is that why?
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We honor all who made the ultimate sacrifice—among them, my friend Navy SEAL David Collins. He came home, but the war followed. After enduring repeated blast waves, he eventually took his own life, but not before donating his brain to science in hopes that future veterans might be saved #BrainInjury
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 26/05/2025
To honor the memory of all veterans, we on E Street remember this live performance of "The Wall" — filmed in 2014 and dedicated to veterans, friends, inspirations and a bandmate lost too soon: Ray and Walter Cichon as well as The Castiles' drummer, Bart Haynes.
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Bruce Springsteen- "The Wall" (Charlotte, NC 04/19/14)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The problem is the influx of users a few months ago meant a surge in behavior that made Twitter so annoying: reply guys, people sharing dumb memes, people doing those handclap declarations and, of course, dog piles based on bad faith and/or stupidity.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 26/05/2025
Some gave all.
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
So, this seriously doesn't bother any of our elected Republicans? Is Senator Collins at least "concerned."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/05/2025
lol
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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of *any* religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.
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Shane Lear @shanelear.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Good people do things for others, not for recognition and praise.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Today is the day we honor those who died overseas stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring here at home--fascism.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
What are regular Americans paying taxes for? Trump has gotten rid of every aspect of the federal government that I cared about and made me proud of this country. There's nothing left.
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Mark Bechtel @markymark757.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social @electroboyusa.bsky.social @newyorkcitygirl.bsky.social @lexi6toes.bsky.social @brittboosts.bsky.social @ellohhlo.bsky.social @bigspark2811.bsky.social @tammyjo408.bsky.social @catwomanresists.bsky.social @abbarsha.bsky.social @markymark757.bsky.social
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. 🇺🇸 #SomberMemorialDay
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Tom Homan is costing American taxpayers $1 million a month: reporter www.rawstory.com/tom-homan-se...
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Tom Homan is costing American taxpayers $1 million a month: reporter
One of President Donald Trump's top staffers is costing American taxpayers around $1 million a month, according to a reporter. Tom Homan, whose official title is White House Executive Associate Direc...
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
'Madam Chair, I brought the data': Dem shames GOP colleagues' 'trash bill' to their faces www.rawstory.com/trump-budget...
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'Madam Chair, I brought the data': Dem shames GOP colleagues' 'trash bill' to their faces
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) was on the receiving end of a brutal attack from a Democratic colleague who hurled in her face the number of constituents in her own district that President Donald Trump's so...
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Trump DHS cheif wants $50M for a new jet — and wants you to pay for it: lawmaker www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...
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Trump DHS cheif wants $50M for a new jet — and wants you to pay for it: lawmaker
The U.S. Coast Guard has asked for an additional $50 million in President Donald Trump's proposed budget to pay for a "new Gulfstream 5 jet for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem," ...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer
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Will🇺🇸📎✌️☮️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We all know what the difference is.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
You might want to sit this one out, Ann.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
You bet your ass
Screenshot of my Bluesky post about the Afrikaner so-called refugees with label of “Intolerance”
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✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ G.🔹 @g-was-here.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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two men are standing next to each other in a room .
ALT: two men are standing next to each other in a room .
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is a key goal of Project 2025.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The Chief Justice helped create this disaster. He needs to help fix it.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 14/05/2025
RFKJ says we are taking from our children with this spending. Funny how this doesn't apply to Defense, only health. How is the Vaccines for Children program (cut) taking from our children?
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Leesa @holyshit3dalien.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Just a guy. That's high.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/05/2025
Good morning to everyone but the most corrupt president to ever exist, who is at this moment selling out his nation to the funders of terrorism so his boy can sign another $2 billion deal. Oh and Tom Holman
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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Proud USAID Brat @proud-usaid-brat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Republican Jesus worked on their budget.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/05/2025
RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views
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