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Shirley Sexton
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Punk rocker 🔥 feminist ✊ Democrat 🌊 cat mom 🐈‍⬛ marcom for nonprofits 👩‍💻 West Virginian 🌄
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muellershewrote.com
New rule: no criticizing the way others choose to resist unless you have a better, actionable idea and kind, constructive feedback. New ideas are good! Performative contrarianism is useless.
July 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Reposted by Shirley Sexton
indivisible.org
We will not cower, even in the face of Trump’s militarized escalation.

On Saturday, we are going to rise up all across the country in defiance of this administration’s authoritarian agenda.

Join the nationwide peaceful protests for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around an image of a map of No Kings events) NO KINGS JUNE 14 - NATIONWIDE DAY OF DEFIANCE nokings.org
June 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Lewisburg, WV” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Lewisburg, WV · No Kings
NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free spee...
www.mobilize.us
May 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
We did it!
wvbird.bsky.social Wvbird @wvbird.bsky.social · Apr 5
In a WV town of 5000
April 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
Nightmare.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Apr 4
A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.
National Endowment for the Humanities staff put on immediate leave
A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.
www.npr.org
April 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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thebaltimorebanner.com
"The real enemy is not me, the dedicated employee and disabled veteran... The real enemy is the reckless decision-making that puts Americans, patriots, civil servants, and civilians in danger while undermining the very functions that keep this government — and this nation — strong."
‘What fresh hell awaits me today?’ Federal workers share their stories.
Maryland is home to about 327,000 federal workers. They share their stories of stress and uncertainty as they watch colleagues fired and contend with the Trump administration's demands to document…
buff.ly
March 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reposted by Shirley Sexton
newrepublic.com
The rumors are true: The proposed SAVE Act, now considered a priority for Republicans in the House, will make it harder, if not practically impossible, for millions of women to vote.
The Christian Nationalist Plot to Disenfranchise Women Voters
The SAVE Act, which purports to fend off the phantasmal threat of voter fraud, would throw millions of women off the voting rolls.
newrepublic.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
Small Peckered Politicians (A Poem)
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Small Peckered Politicians (A Poem)
They took them out of their pants and
open.substack.com
March 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Shirley Sexton
coreyrforrester.bsky.social
Last night I perhaps had one too many hot toddys for my throat and wrote about RFK Jr threatening to take away antidepressants for millions of people like me.

Read it here for free!
An Open Letter To RFK Jr As One Of Those Crazy People On SSRI’s
*audio of this essay will be up at WeLoveCorey.com the very second he gets his voice back!*
open.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reposted by Shirley Sexton
markhamillofficial.bsky.social
HERO vs ZERO
I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore.
#SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
March 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
webbarbie.bsky.social
"If we feel someone is a rapist, we should be free to say so, or a lifetime bigot...blowhard, or a porcine pork person, or a malignant, delusion, licentious, clownish traitor, or just a plain old douchebag. By God, it is our right and our duty to do so." geneweingarten.substack.com/p/pointing-t...
Pointing the Way: An Op-ed for the Wa-po.
To The Washington Post:
geneweingarten.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Reposted by Shirley Sexton
thankyoumrdata.bsky.social
Homophobes and transphobes get the airlock.
February 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL
BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL
BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL
BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL
BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL
BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL
BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL
BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL

PASS IT ON!!!
a group of cartoon characters are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying boooo
ALT: a group of cartoon characters are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying boooo
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Reposted by Shirley Sexton
npr.org
The edict comes as Russell Vought takes over at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Vought has ordered work to halt at the consumer finance watchdog, and is cutting off new funding.
New CFPB chief closes headquarters, tells all staff they must work remotely for the week
The edict comes as Russell Vought takes over at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Vought has ordered work to halt at the consumer finance watchdog, and is cutting off new funding.
www.npr.org
February 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
This a massive win for Democracy. The war is far from over but let's celebrate battles won!
normeisen.bsky.social Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · Feb 6
BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!

Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
February 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Reposted by Shirley Sexton
grbrdemwomen.bsky.social
The cruelty is the point.

In famine-stricken Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone have shut down.

In Thailand, war refugees with life-threatening diseases have been turned away by hospitals and carted off on makeshift stretchers.
How the World Is Reeling From Trump’s Aid Freeze (Gift Article)
President Trump’s order to halt most foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised questions about the United States’ reliability as a global leader.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Shirley Sexton
starshapedpress.bsky.social
Shout out @vichcraft.bsky.social for the new swag for our 100-year-old press.
January 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Reposted by Shirley Sexton
grbrdemwomen.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
"And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall." --Bob Dylan
roykesey.bsky.social Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · Dec 21
The weathervane on top of the Greenbrier Co. Courthouse, home to the only legal case I know of where a ghost’s testimony led to a conviction. (Also the only case where the murderer’s name was Erasmus Trout Shue, so.)
📷📸⚖️🧭
#greenbriercounty #ghost #lewisburg #westvirginia #b&w #photography #clarity
A black-and-white photo of a weathervane, its arrow pointing east, above the white octagonal clock-bearing cupola of the Greenbrier County Courthouse in Lewisburg, West Virginia.
January 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
Hmmm, maybe we don't need to go to Covington today.
roykesey.bsky.social Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · Dec 23
Sometimes a photo doesn’t show what really happened. Other times a 4’ black snake actually did fall out of the toilet paper dispenser in the Porta Potty in the Humpback Bridge parking lot while you were using the toilet.
📷📸🐍🧭
#humpbackbridge #blacksnake #covington #virginia #photography #clarity
A black snake perched on a dirty gray ledge below the porta potty toilet paper dispenser out of which it just fell.
January 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
Amen!
thegodpodcast.com God @thegodpodcast.com · Jan 23
Yesterday, we witnessed Bishop Mariann Budde stand firmly against Donold’s fragile ego. After calling out his blatant hypocrisy in her powerful sermon, Donold demanded an apology, like the whiny, snotty little baby he is.
Her response?
Bishop Rejects Whiny Baby's Apology Demand
"I am not going to apologize."
www.thegodpodcast.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to share." --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
@markagee.bsky.social Daily dumbass nominee! Spelling still counts even though morons are running the country.
marionicolais.bsky.social Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · Jan 20
I can only assume the incoming Secretary of Defense was back at his old stomping grounds at Fox News on Sunday.
January 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
Has your organization stopped using Twitter yet? It's way past time. Don't feed the beast.
January 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
webbarbie.bsky.social
@godpod.bsky.social bless the ACLU! People in several West Virginia communities do not have access to clean drinking water. This is nuts.
acluwv.bsky.social ACLU of West Virginia @acluwv.bsky.social · Jan 13
BREAKING: We’re suing to stop a $5 million grant in water development funds to a “radically Catholic” Ohio school.

The state Constitution is clear: Our tax dollars cannot be used to support a specific church or ministry.

We’ll see the WV Water Development Authority in court.
January 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM