beckyflaum.bsky.social
@beckyflaum.bsky.social
I will scream this until I lose my voice...
"REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD"

Lack of regulations has led to the majority of tragedies in American history. They might save some money (for rich people) but they cost human lives.
February 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Yt women, we have the chance to use our powers for good.
When faced with authority figures
Play dumb
Weaponize those tears
SMILE

I know this feels icky at first because you want to tell these people to fuck off with your whole chest.

But you catch more N*zis with honey than with vinegar.
January 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Marylanders aren't distracted by Donald Trump's TikTok charade. He is playing savior because he has no plans to lower the cost of groceries or protect your healthcare. Don't let him get away with it.
January 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Not friendly reminder that TRUMP wanted the TikTok ban in 2020 because TikTokers were doing things like getting all the tickets to his rallies so that the crowds would be small.

This is a move straight from the Third Reicht playbook. Create a problem so you can solve it. He isn’t a hero.
January 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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BRENNAN: Do you expect though that Republicans will still help Californians in need even if they don't like their local politics and the party?

SEN. BARRASSO: I expect there will be strings attached to money that is ultimately approved ...
January 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I cannot bear the lies being told about Los Angeles. I beg of you to debunk these stories as much as possible.
January 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Besides reading Octavia Butler: can we rally and support Octavia's Bookshelf--an independent, Black woman owned bookstore in Pasadena: www.octaviasbookshelf.com
Octavia's Bookshelf
Pasadena's first independent bookstore highlighting BIPOC authors. Located at 1361 North Hill Ave, Pasadena, CA 91104.
www.octaviasbookshelf.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Call it nativity mixed with white privilege but I never thought there were THIS MANY truly evil people in the world.
I really believed that most people were good. The last few weeks have really made me question that.
January 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Very thankful for the hard work of the firefighters under terrible conditions, and for the firefighters coming in now from out of state.
January 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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A thriller of 1960s South. Madeline Sterling and Socrates Gray, agents for a civil rights group, are chased by killers. When Gray is kidnapped, the ransom demand is Sterling’s newborn daughter. Universal buy link: books2read.com/u/bMya77
January 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).
January 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I’m starting a news publication called The Star Ledger Eggs-press. We’re going to obtain White House press credentials and after every policy announcement we will ask, “Mr. President, how is renaming the Gulf of Mexico going to lower the price of eggs?”.
January 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is a lot of words to say “racism” and “selfishness”.
After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them
we're cooked
December 11, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Most Americans have at least one text chain that has someone is complaining about how their health/car/home insurance is jerking them around on any given day.

And if you don’t, then maybe keep your mouth shut about empathy.
December 8, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Only one singer can sing Christmas songs from now on, who do you pick and why is it Kelly Clarkson?
December 5, 2024 at 4:08 PM
How do I make my feed more ADHD middle age mom jokes and less “BREAKING: Trump nominated 6 day old shrimp cocktail for National Food Safety Secretary!!”
December 4, 2024 at 11:05 PM
I hope BlueSky is worth me doing the thing I hate the most…downloading a new app.
December 4, 2024 at 4:06 AM