Amiee Kushner
@amiee.bsky.social
🌈she/her 🌉 @brokeassstuart.bsky.social herder ✡️ semi-professional Jew🥄chronic illness navigator, 🧾Professional Fiduciary, formerly HR @eff.bsky.social Gardening, cooking and cats. Mostly in the Sierra Nevada foothills but frequently in SF.
It's mushroom hunting season. Popping up all over!
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It's mushroom hunting season. Popping up all over!
This looks like a headline from @theonion.com but nope, factual headline.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
At pardoning ceremony, Trump informs turkey of all he’s accomplished
“Last year’s turkey pardons are totally invalid,” Trump said at the annual event.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This looks like a headline from @theonion.com but nope, factual headline.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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Last night I was listening to a podcast discussing unitary executive theory and I cursed Dick Cheney under my breath... I think it worked.
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Last night I was listening to a podcast discussing unitary executive theory and I cursed Dick Cheney under my breath... I think it worked.
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If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.
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Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
My 2026 Covered California renewal quote is including the federal subsidies. There is nothing in my renewal notice indicating I might not get the subsidy. Is the state of CA planning to fund this if the feds don't?
How is anyone supposed to pick a plan under these circumstances?
How is anyone supposed to pick a plan under these circumstances?
October 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My 2026 Covered California renewal quote is including the federal subsidies. There is nothing in my renewal notice indicating I might not get the subsidy. Is the state of CA planning to fund this if the feds don't?
How is anyone supposed to pick a plan under these circumstances?
How is anyone supposed to pick a plan under these circumstances?
Anyone else's cat sleep like this?
October 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Anyone else's cat sleep like this?
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history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
October 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
I've not forgiven what he did in 2016 and I still believe this indictment is really really bad.
September 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I've not forgiven what he did in 2016 and I still believe this indictment is really really bad.
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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Trump on DC: "We haven't had to bring in the regular military, which we're willing to do if we have to. And after we do this, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe also ... Chicago is a mess. And we'll straighten that one out probably next"
August 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Trump on DC: "We haven't had to bring in the regular military, which we're willing to do if we have to. And after we do this, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe also ... Chicago is a mess. And we'll straighten that one out probably next"
My high school English teacher was a teenager in Nazi occupied Estonia and she beat up a Nazi-youth with a stale baguette when he tried to take it from her. That story is burned in my brain. 🥖
walking around with a baguette, slowly slapping my hand
August 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My high school English teacher was a teenager in Nazi occupied Estonia and she beat up a Nazi-youth with a stale baguette when he tried to take it from her. That story is burned in my brain. 🥖
I have always said he's a sociopath but he's *our* sociopath.
Ok, you know why I don’t like Gavin Newsom? You know how in While You Were Sleeping, Peter Gallagher’s family all talks about how he rescued a nest of baby birds as a kid, and later he admits he knocked their nest out of the tree with a rock, then made sure everyone saw him rescue it?
That’s Gavin.
That’s Gavin.
August 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I have always said he's a sociopath but he's *our* sociopath.
I watched the New Heights episode so now I'm off to Tik Tok to watch videos about people watching the New Heights episode.
August 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I watched the New Heights episode so now I'm off to Tik Tok to watch videos about people watching the New Heights episode.
If you ever think about reaching out to an old friend who you lost touch with for no major reason... Do it. Got to catch up with one today and it was delightful.
August 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
If you ever think about reaching out to an old friend who you lost touch with for no major reason... Do it. Got to catch up with one today and it was delightful.
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“we reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and completely ignored it all because we are fuckin dumbasses who want millions of people to die”
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“we reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and completely ignored it all because we are fuckin dumbasses who want millions of people to die”
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"AND YOU CAN TELL ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE THAT MY LAST WORDS WERE... I'M ON DRUGS"
August 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"AND YOU CAN TELL ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE THAT MY LAST WORDS WERE... I'M ON DRUGS"
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And so it begins...
Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]
Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]
Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
(RNS) — ‘We think that it’s not a matter of if, but just a matter of when, the Supreme Court will overrule Obergefell,’ said Mathew Staver, head of Liberty Counsel.
religionnews.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
And so it begins...
Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]
Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]
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Anyone have a bigass fish tank and a Klingon bird of prey?
Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign
A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?
www.nationalgeographic.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Anyone have a bigass fish tank and a Klingon bird of prey?
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
If I keep the same plan I have right now my coverage will go from $500/mo to around $1200/mo. It's more than my mortgage.
My prescription drugs and specialists will mean I'm either paying a crazy high premium or crazy high co-pays.
My prescription drugs and specialists will mean I'm either paying a crazy high premium or crazy high co-pays.
Another thing Trump is actively making more expensive: our health insurance premiums.
Cost of Obamacare expected to soar as subsidies expire and insurers hike premiums
People who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act could see increases of more than 75% each month, one expert said.
www.nbcnews.com
July 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If I keep the same plan I have right now my coverage will go from $500/mo to around $1200/mo. It's more than my mortgage.
My prescription drugs and specialists will mean I'm either paying a crazy high premium or crazy high co-pays.
My prescription drugs and specialists will mean I'm either paying a crazy high premium or crazy high co-pays.
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"My photographer got hit twice by less than lethal rounds and he's got blood on one of his arms and we just took off running with the entire crowd. It was absolutely chaotic."
July 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"My photographer got hit twice by less than lethal rounds and he's got blood on one of his arms and we just took off running with the entire crowd. It was absolutely chaotic."
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This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far
July 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far
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You know when you were a kid and your parents made you go to some other kid’s birthday party that you didn’t want to go to but you went anyway because you knew there would be food and cake and probably something fun to do? I think that’s what today feels like for a lot of people.
July 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
You know when you were a kid and your parents made you go to some other kid’s birthday party that you didn’t want to go to but you went anyway because you knew there would be food and cake and probably something fun to do? I think that’s what today feels like for a lot of people.