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Julie Butcher 🌴
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"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
~ Hunter S. Thompson


My local reporting: https://muckrack.com/julie-butcher
My writings & such: https://butchershop-nobonesaboutit.com
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Welcome to the California GARDENERS feed! Please click on this post for more info ☀️ 🥑 🍊 🌺 🌵 🌴 🩴 🌹
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Genius
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things."
~ Clive Anderson

Me too!

🌱 #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow ☀️ #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.”
~ Bill Dana

#Caturday? Doesn't that imply that there are other days?

Happy pets to all the #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈‍⬛
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Ah! A kind wish for all the gardeners of BlueSky 🌱 #FlowersOnFriday #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Exchange between #Glendale mayor & state senator highlights tension between "Sacramento" and California cities.

“I’ve lost count of the number of times this council has lamented the imposition of central control by the legislature in Sacramento . . ."

www.crescentavalleyweekly.com/news/11/20/2...
Council Admonishes State Senator - Crescenta Valley Weekly
www.crescentavalleyweekly.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
💥 Jackie Goldberg Sunset Junction!

There are two kinds of people in politics: those who want to be somebody and those who want to do something.

Jackie Goldberg heads that much smaller list.

A beautiful Los Angeles moment!

www.latimes.com/california/n...
They named a street junction for an L.A. leader 'on fire for justice'
Your morning catch up: Jackie Goldberg gets name-checked on Sunset, the Sacramento corruption probe continues and more big stories
www.latimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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We are in D.C. now! Join us tomorrow for the start of Remove the Regime. Full schedule below:
We are excited to be at Remove the Regime this week!

🟣 What: Remove the Regime

🗓️ When: November 20 - 22

📍 Where: Washington, D.C.

There will be a rally, a march, Congressional office visits, live entertainment, and lots more. We hope to see you there.

More info here:
www.removetheregime.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“Purple is my soul color; it’s a melody for the heart and mind.”
~ Prince

Me too 💜 💜 💜

Hoping you get to spend a little time in your garden on this #PrettyPurpleThursday 🌱

#Bloomscrolling 🪻 #FlowerReport 🪷 #Gardening 💛 #Zone10a
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Oh my.

James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.

Get this man in the Senate.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."
~ Katharine Lee Bates

Joy and beauty to ya all! 🌱 #RoseWednesday

#BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🌹 #Gardening 🪷 #Zone10a
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."
~ Honoré de Balzac

🌱 Brrrr, it's cold out there (for us!) on this #TinyFlowerTuesday, but these smol paperwhites are blooming like it's April and they're daffodils!
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Come see the new Ibex or Oryx or whatever, it's one of those two.
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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how to whistle
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“Weather means more when you have a garden. There is nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is sinking in around your green beans.”
~ Marcelene Cox

Much magnificence to ya'all on this cold & rainy #MagentaMonday
💜🌱🩷
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Right?
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers."
~ Pablo Neruda

Oddly comforting.

🌱 Happy day of #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow
#BloomScrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a ☀️
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thomas Stearns, in all his Morning Gloryness, bedecked for the proper celebration of #Caturday along with all of you'se, the coolest #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈‍⬛ ~ before the big rains.
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Pinch and zoom
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract.

Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
November 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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NEW: 781 student workers in the Cal State are unionizing with @seiu.org.
November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Check out this purple lovely, lovelies!
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"No Rain, No Flowers."
~ The Black Keys

On this wet #FlowersOnFriday 🌱 I honor the rain. I cherish the rain! I try not to drive in the rain ('cause we forget that we know how to drive.)
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.

Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.

Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Unanimous MVP awards:

Michael Jordan 0
LeBron James 0
Shohei Ohtani 4
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM