Kim Leonard
@kimleonard.bsky.social
Hope is a discipline. Keep going.
#proabortion #protecttranskids #antibillionaire
#proabortion #protecttranskids #antibillionaire
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Kim Leonard
@kimleonard.bsky.social
· Aug 5
I could only read the beginning of this before I felt even more sick with worry for my transgender loved ones.
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
My kid recently apologized for calling me a shit lib when I was a proud normie Democrat. I’m starting to see his point. Gawd I’m pissed off at this deal.
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social it’s time for you to speak up for new leadership. Period.
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social it’s time for you to speak up for new leadership. Period.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My kid recently apologized for calling me a shit lib when I was a proud normie Democrat. I’m starting to see his point. Gawd I’m pissed off at this deal.
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social it’s time for you to speak up for new leadership. Period.
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social it’s time for you to speak up for new leadership. Period.
cc: @chuckschumer.com @durbin.senate.gov and whomever else came up with this plan to suck the air out of the base’s hard earned hope from Election Day. What the hell? #newleadershipnow
one thing sports have taught me is that the great teams, when they have a gigantic lead, press down on the gas and bury their opponents while the mediocre teams coast and more often than not let their often weaker opponent right back into the game
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
cc: @chuckschumer.com @durbin.senate.gov and whomever else came up with this plan to suck the air out of the base’s hard earned hope from Election Day. What the hell? #newleadershipnow
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Flood the phones:
(202) 224-3121
Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line…
There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.
(202) 224-3121
Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line…
There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Flood the phones:
(202) 224-3121
Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line…
There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.
(202) 224-3121
Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line…
There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.
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FWIW, this deal isn’t finalized yet.
If you want Democrats to keep fighting, call your Senator.
The vote to advance the bill will likely succeed, but all that does is tee up a final up/down vote.
If you want Democrats to keep fighting, call your Senator.
The vote to advance the bill will likely succeed, but all that does is tee up a final up/down vote.
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
FWIW, this deal isn’t finalized yet.
If you want Democrats to keep fighting, call your Senator.
The vote to advance the bill will likely succeed, but all that does is tee up a final up/down vote.
If you want Democrats to keep fighting, call your Senator.
The vote to advance the bill will likely succeed, but all that does is tee up a final up/down vote.
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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My senator. WTF is Schumer
doing!?
doing!?
“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
My senator. WTF is Schumer
doing!?
doing!?
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.
That’s my senator. Call yours, Illinois.
No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
That’s my senator. Call yours, Illinois.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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Garbage agency doing the garbage bidding of this garbage administration.
ICE just arrested the father of a special needs child — during his job as a landscaper with a work permit.
This is what is happening in Chicago. ICE is targeting hardworking parents with kids who need them.
This is what is happening in Chicago. ICE is targeting hardworking parents with kids who need them.
‘How can we help?’ Lincoln Square school rallies around family after ICE takes parent of special needs child
Teachers reached out to the child’s mother, Ingrid Guanume, who told them federal immigration agents had taken her husband, Brayan Plata.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Garbage agency doing the garbage bidding of this garbage administration.
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
x1,000,000
Nothing to this one but venting: The transphobes are the most cowardly of bigots, people so terrified of what's in their pants & what's not in their hearts that they make it a calling to terrorize those who've done the work to know who they are. Mice have more courage, slugs have more grace.
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
x1,000,000
Just dripping with empathy.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Just dripping with empathy.
Time to go comment on another cruel and intrusive rule this administration wants to implement.
6 Nov 2025 -- Homeland Security (DHS) opens public comment on new rule allowing it to impose mandatory “biological sex” DNA testing on millions of immigrants as part of its mass biometric surveillance program, putting targets on the backs of trans & intersex people. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
DHS Wants to Make Some Immigrants and Visitors Take a DNA Sex Test
The public comment period for the proposal has begun.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Time to go comment on another cruel and intrusive rule this administration wants to implement.
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I see, I see www.reuters.com/world/us/boe...
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I see, I see www.reuters.com/world/us/boe...
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"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
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Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.
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I got bad news for Trump about every election going forward from now until the end of time
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I got bad news for Trump about every election going forward from now until the end of time
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.