Aimee
@ladyblanchester.bsky.social
Teacher, theater-lover, queer
Last five books read:
Fang Fiction, Kate Stayman-London
John Proctor is the Villain, Kimberly Belflower
I Want to Burn This Place Down, Maris Kreizman
Women’s Hotel, Daniel M. Lavery
A Physical Education, Casey Johnston
Last five books read:
Fang Fiction, Kate Stayman-London
John Proctor is the Villain, Kimberly Belflower
I Want to Burn This Place Down, Maris Kreizman
Women’s Hotel, Daniel M. Lavery
A Physical Education, Casey Johnston
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Come join the public meeting at the Westerly Library to express your support for better rail service in Rhode Island!
#RhodeIsland #Westerly #trains #publictransportation
#RhodeIsland #Westerly #trains #publictransportation
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Just called @magaziner.house.gov who voted for the resolution - so disappointing, if not surprising. Read a book about the New Deal, Rep. Magaziner.
The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
86 Dems joined Republicans in supporting the measure, incl. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
86 Dems joined Republicans in supporting the measure, incl. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Just called @magaziner.house.gov who voted for the resolution - so disappointing, if not surprising. Read a book about the New Deal, Rep. Magaziner.
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everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
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Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.
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If they're making it harder for nurses to afford graduate degrees and have already made it harder for nursing professionals to come to the US to work under visas, then who do they think will work the hospitals, the nursing homes, the outpatient clinics, the community health programs, etc?
Who?
Who?
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If they're making it harder for nurses to afford graduate degrees and have already made it harder for nursing professionals to come to the US to work under visas, then who do they think will work the hospitals, the nursing homes, the outpatient clinics, the community health programs, etc?
Who?
Who?
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My Jewish Dad.
Shipping Out With The Coast Guard.
To fight Nazis in WWII.
Shipping Out With The Coast Guard.
To fight Nazis in WWII.
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My Jewish Dad.
Shipping Out With The Coast Guard.
To fight Nazis in WWII.
Shipping Out With The Coast Guard.
To fight Nazis in WWII.
change one letter and ruin a candy
Wounds
Wounds
change one letter and ruin a candy
Hershey’s Pisses
Hershey’s Pisses
change one letter and ruin a candy
Pilk Duds
Pilk Duds
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
change one letter and ruin a candy
Wounds
Wounds
Your tarot deck only has 74 cards?
Problematic page gap.
Problematic page gap.
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
Somebody's taken out an entire chapter of your book?
Problematic page gap.
Problematic page gap.
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Your tarot deck only has 74 cards?
Problematic page gap.
Problematic page gap.
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In a year in which the VP argued that "America is not just an idea," it's worth returning to the Gettysburg Address, delivered on this day 162 years ago.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In a year in which the VP argued that "America is not just an idea," it's worth returning to the Gettysburg Address, delivered on this day 162 years ago.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."
Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once (if you feel like it)
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once (if you feel like it)
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.
When you read these Epstein emails, you start to understand why so many prominent conservatives are obsessed with checking the genitals of children. It's a big thing for them!
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.
When I was 12 & walking to my violin lesson, a man in his 20s pulled his car over to ask what was in the case. I looked at him & said "A gun" but inside I was preparing to run 1/2 a block as fast as I could to the nearest house whose owners I knew. I have now spent 3/4 of my life thinking like this.
I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
When I was 12 & walking to my violin lesson, a man in his 20s pulled his car over to ask what was in the case. I looked at him & said "A gun" but inside I was preparing to run 1/2 a block as fast as I could to the nearest house whose owners I knew. I have now spent 3/4 of my life thinking like this.
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William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
Can personally attest that this is true.
It's a miracle that schools function at all day-to-day, given the demands we make of school workers across the entire system relative to the resources we provide them to make good on our demands. It's a thing held together through a collective effort that puts the moon landing to shame.
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Can personally attest that this is true.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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During the Civil War, more than 20% of Union soldiers were also foreign-born, mostly from Germany and Ireland. During World War I, approximately half a million immigrants were serving in the US military. “Foreigners have continued to serve in significant numbers since World War II.” #VeteransDay
In fact, immigrant service members fought in major conflicts since our country’s founding. “Hundreds of thousands of immigrants pledged to defend the United States with their lives in the Civil War, both World Wars, and conflicts like those in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.” #VeteransDay
new from @tusk81.bsky.social:
Veteran’s Day can’t be properly observed without also noting the vast, heroic contributions of immigrant service members to the United States military.
Unfortunately, our nation has not always given its service members the respect they deserve.
Veteran’s Day can’t be properly observed without also noting the vast, heroic contributions of immigrant service members to the United States military.
Unfortunately, our nation has not always given its service members the respect they deserve.
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
During the Civil War, more than 20% of Union soldiers were also foreign-born, mostly from Germany and Ireland. During World War I, approximately half a million immigrants were serving in the US military. “Foreigners have continued to serve in significant numbers since World War II.” #VeteransDay
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Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
Call your Dem senators, folks. We can't assume they'll do the right thing and stay strong against the GOP. Giving in at this point for nothing but a promise would be an act of utter foolishness and we need to do everything we can to keep that from happening.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Call your Dem senators, folks. We can't assume they'll do the right thing and stay strong against the GOP. Giving in at this point for nothing but a promise would be an act of utter foolishness and we need to do everything we can to keep that from happening.
Do someone in your life a favor and introduce them to this truth today.
We say men are less emotional because we coincidentally don't define anger or reacting because of ego as emotions.
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Do someone in your life a favor and introduce them to this truth today.
This camp I used to go to made Lady Di sandwiches - chicken breast and tomatoes and some other good stuff on homemade focaccia. A real Proustian memory for me, those sandwiches.
what is your favorite sandwich that you would never throw at anyone?
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This camp I used to go to made Lady Di sandwiches - chicken breast and tomatoes and some other good stuff on homemade focaccia. A real Proustian memory for me, those sandwiches.
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It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.
On a call with reporters, DNC chair Ken Martin responds to JD Vance claiming Dems only won big last night because races were in blue states.
"Well that's bullshit. We won in red counties, blue counties, purple counties," Martin says. And it was all "a rejection of Trump."
"Well that's bullshit. We won in red counties, blue counties, purple counties," Martin says. And it was all "a rejection of Trump."
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.
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so I just don’t have the stomach to cast a vote for someone who is still living in 1990 and thinks gentlemanly bipartisanship is what we all want from our Democrats, or who are beholden to the same class of billionaires Trump is but are just corrupt in a slightly different flavor
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
so I just don’t have the stomach to cast a vote for someone who is still living in 1990 and thinks gentlemanly bipartisanship is what we all want from our Democrats, or who are beholden to the same class of billionaires Trump is but are just corrupt in a slightly different flavor