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📚✍🏻👩‍👧‍👦 Bookworm, writer, mom, liberal 💙 All opinions my own. 📘 Books, Lego, Phillies, Bridgerton, Art, Pop-culture fanatic 🏠 LFL Charter #130244

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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Loving Yankee Stadium, but the lines for food/drink are ridiculous compared to CBP. 😩 #phillies
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Care vs. cult. #resist
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Our country's problem is "conservative" politics fueled by white supremacy. It denies human rights to our country's citizens AND the immigrants and migrants that come here to make this melting pot on stolen land home. An oligarchy now controls our gov't & our gov't is an authoritarian one. #SCOTUS
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs. What the hell are we doing?
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Having a blast at Phillies Pride Night and then Taijuan Walker ruins it! 😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Pure joy! LOVE IS LOVE! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #pride #lgbtq #loveislove
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Stephen Miller is fulfilling his high school wet dream of terrorizing all the Brown people in Los Angeles. My daughter's friends who went to SaMo High with him said he used to seethe while the morning announcements were repeated in Spanish. Hell, they did that when I went there. (Mesozoic age.)
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Masked ICE thugs terrorized Chicago yesterday. They lied to immigrants waiting for their court hearing by summoning them for “surprise check-ins” and then assaulted protesters and elected officials. THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
SOUTH LOOP
ICE Mass Arrests Spark Chaos In South Loop As Activists Fight To Disrupt
Operation
At least 10 people were arrested at check-ins under an ICE monitoring program for immigrants, and an alderman said he was thrown to the ground by agents while protesting the arrests.
By Francia Garcia Hernandez and Sebastián Hidalgo
17 hours agoReports of the arrests, which quickly spread on social media, prompted activists and alderpeople to arrive on scene at the office building at 2245 S. Michigan Ave. to resist and document the arrests. A chaotic scene unfolded, and Ald. Anthony Quezada (35th)
later said ICE agents pushed him to the ground as the tense scene unfolded.
Quezada told Block Club at least 10 people were detained by immigration agents Wednesday, with the alderman citing community organizers. Quezada said one advocate told him people received text messages informing them to come to the building for "surprise check-ins" as part of the federal Intensive Supervision Appearance Program.Tensions escalated outside the office building as agents led detainees out to vans. Most agents wore face coverings and some carried long guns. They were seen pushing back some of the alderpeople and residents who assembled to protest, and Quezada later said he was aggressively pushed to the ground by agents.
A child could also be heard asking if his mother was among those being led to the vans as he frantically searched for her.
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
FUCK THIS. The cruelty. The inhumanity. ENOUGH! @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @whipkclark.bsky.social STOP THIS!!!!
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The Trump admin is literally arresting Democratic judges and reps!! Why are ANY Dems voting for ANY GOP laws or nominees?! Esp election deniers like Perdue and convicted felon Charles Kushner?!? @booker.senate.gov What the hell are you doing?!?!??
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Has anyone ever bought anything from an ad they see on a streaming service? Yeah, me either. What an inane reason to charge people MORE. #hbomax
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
HBO Max, the company producing J.K. Rowling's new project, wants you to respect its second name change in as many years.
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
THIS IS FASCISM!!!!!!
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Dr. Carla Hayden was the first Black person & woman Librarian of Congress. She championed lit that included LGBTQ voices, women, people of color, & honest accounts of history. So, of course, she was fired by a soulless president who has no interest in reading anything beyond headlines about himself.
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Trans people serving in our military aren’t dishonorable. #SCOTUS judges who lied in their confirmation hearings, engage in pay-for-play corruption while on the highest court, and rule based on theocratic, bigoted ideology instead of the Constitution are dishonorable. Actually they’re deplorable.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/05/2025
At a time of massive inequality, Trump's budget is breathtaking in its degree of cruelty. It slashes funding for health care, housing & education that the working class desperately needs in order to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires & the Pentagon. That is morally obscene.
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This guy is the creepiest, most soulless human I have ever seen.
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If felon Harvey Weinstein were elected president—even after degrading & assaulting women—I wouldn't golf with him, pose for photos with him, eat the meal he offered, or even speak to him. Especially if I had the privilege of being a millionaire. I'd damn well stay home. #jalenhurts #gobirds
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
We had a day! Three amazing bookstores in one day! Happy Independent Bookstore Day! #shoplocal #independentbookstoreday
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process. He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Rolling Stone headline: Trump has now deported multiple U.S. citizen children with cancer
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Why can’t the #Phillies get people on base home?!?! Infuriating! 😩
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The Trump administration’s liberal Marxist communist diversity effort to staff the government with white, male dipshits MUST be stopped. It’s clearly DEI run amok.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
My beloved foremothers did not fight for my equal rights so that Nancy Mace could scream "fuck you" at a precious man in a South Carolina Ulta.
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Deplorable is too nice a word for what these people are. The Trump admin is soulless. 🤮
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I had the absolute pleasure of visiting The Bookhouse Hotel at Faunbrook in West Chester, PA, for their opening house. It was as glorious as I anticipated! I'm headed there in October for a writer's retreat AND I'm staying in the Jane Austen room. I cannot wait!!!! 💙 #booktok #books #read #bookhotel
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
More of me doing little things to fight back. I started a free Substack called, "Thru the Lit Lens" where I discuss books, art, history, politics, and more. Check it out, if you'd like! Here's my latest post. open.substack.com/pub/readingw... #books #politics #bannedbooks #booksky #read #bookblog
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I really believe in doing "good things" to combat our country's rampant hate. I'm starting a group at my church that I'm excited about: Salt & Light Collective. Although, as Lutherans, we follow the directives of the liberal #ELCA, we still aren't as visibly active as I'd like. Our mission: (1/5)
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
As I’ve said again and again, this guy is a useless, bootlicking, heartless tool. We could have had Bob Casey, who actually gave a shit about PA’ians. This “response” is trash. @davemccormick.bsky.social
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Happy Opening Day of baseball!!! GO PHILS! ⚾️♥️🧢 @phillies.com
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
F*ck this a$$hole.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Just so we’re all clear, the Supreme Court *expressly ruled* that the president cannot fire FTC commissioners without cause in 1935’s Humphrey’s Executor. Trump’s action here is brazenly illegal under any interpretation of the law as it stands. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
reuters.com
Exclusive: Trump fires both Democratic commissioners at FTC, sources say
President Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
nytimes.com
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Instead of WTF, I will be using this as my new WTF meme! #thewhitelotus
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Where are those Republicans who LOVE the Constitution? Who spew ad nauseam about how they love it and respect it? Where are they now? Also, this is on Chuck Schumer who kowtowed to the GOP--a corrupt, traitorous, authoritarian party.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Trying to imagine Biden withholding disaster funds from red states unless they first instituted gun control
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
😡😡😡😡😡😡
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I'm battling a sinus infection, so my tolerance for the horrific state of this country is at a low. But gutting the Inst of Museum & Library Services (& 6 other fed'l depts) put me over the edge & I called both my useless Senators (Fetterman/McCormick) to plead for them to do something. #trump
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The Verge @theverge.com · 14/03/2025
Ted Lasso is coming back for season 4
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Ted Lasso is coming back for season 4
Believe.
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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 14/03/2025
Thanks to President Biden, seniors on Medicare were about to only have to pay $2 for many generic medications. Trump said "Not on my watch!" and now seniors will have to pay more on their prescription drugs.
thinkadvisor.com
Trump Blocks Medicare's Efforts to Create a $2 Prescription Drug List
He also declared that any new or pending regulations may go through some things.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I just got my 1st "newsletter" from Sen. #davemccormick. He really thinks we're ignorant, huh? He trashed Zelenskyy & then puts in a pic w/a Catholic priest. & OF COURSE the only place you can reach him is X. What a weak, pathetic "yes" man. Nothing about Trump siding with Russia.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We are 10 years into the Trump era, we watched a speech in which Trump castigated Dems as 'radical left lunatics' & used a racist jibe against a Dem senator, & Democratic Congressman Jim Himes voted to censure Al Green because of the importance of 'decorum' & 'civility. Really? Really?? SHEESH.
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Remember when MTG was removed during Biden's SOTU. Oh. Wait.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/03/2025
NEW: Kegseth is changing the name of Ft Moore back to Ft Benning (originally named after a confederate), but says it’s Benning the WWI guy. What a dick. www.defense.gov/News/News-St....
defense.gov
Hegseth Restores Fort Moore to Fort Benning in Honor of WWI Soldier
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum directing Fort Moore, Ga., to be renamed Fort Benning in honor of Army Cpl. Fred G. Benning who served during World War I with the United States
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ReadingWhileMommying @readingwhilemom.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New “odd” socks of Lizzie and Darcy! 🩷 #books #read #janeausten #prideandprejudice
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