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@gretchen-gretchen.bsky.social
✨✌️💫 BRING YOUR LIGHT TO THE FIGHT! Needed now more than ever.

Small business founder/owner. Occasionally sharp tongue. Working, loving, creating, cooking, resisting. Love my country 💙 Love animals. Happily married 🫶 love my veteran!
“Hey! Just a heads up that I’m canceling Hulu/Disney until they reinstate Jimmy Kimmel. They can fuck all the way off with censoring comedy.”

Me, a few minutes ago to my fellow Huluers. I’ve had it that subscription forever.
September 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Sounds about right:
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
May 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Nope.

Why should farmers get a bailout when small businesses are getting decimated?

These tariffs are wrecking our economy and any semblance of business planning and forecasting. I’m way past empathy for those who voted for this!
April 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Career goals?
More in No, Other People:

New poll:

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree

“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
And the taxpayers wouldn’t have to foot the bill! 🙌💥
April 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
March 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Restore CDC website is up! 🤩✌️
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
About sums it up:
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
5 Million Dollar Golden Ticket to BUY citizenship. Serious.
March 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Yes! We need to get back to a place where our WORD MATTERS! Where we don’t bait and switch.. to our countrymen, our vets, our allies… I miss US!
Rep. Suozzi: 26% of the federal workforce are veterans—26%. What about their service to this country? We encouraged them to apply for these jobs, and now we’re just taking away their livelihoods? It’s not just chaotic, it’s not just cruel—it’s unconstitutional.
February 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
NEVER thought I’d see the day. 😭🤬
February 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Thank you to these civil servants who take their oath seriously!
This is what courage looks like. While so many stay silent, these people took a stand. We need more of that—right now.

📌 21 civil service employees resigned from DOGE
February 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Steady stream of aviation errors. Will anyone who voted for them even question this?
1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
February 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Here’s a choice snippet… wellness farms to detox. For 3-4 YEARS. What brilliance, solving the lack of agriculture workers (due to threat of deportation) at the same time!
/s
February 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
It would be great if this administration (I use that term loosely) would consider consequences of ANY of their actions.

The American public is in between the FA and the FO stages of FAFO. The callous and reckless actions we’ve seen so far will reverberate for decades, it hasn’t even been a month.
February 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It’s been known that Musk was being investigated by multiple agencies. What fun this must be for him. All while being cheered on like the savior of government overspending and white power.
Musk isn’t making government smaller.

He’s shutting down the parts of the government that have been investigating his companies for safety violations and ties to Russia.
February 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The “Golden Age”, also known as “The Age of the Oligarchy?” Not looking so golden for the American people!
Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?
February 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Old fashioned word? Nope, to 99.9% of us, it’s a word we use almost daily. Your name is sometimes used in the same sentence too, with other common words like “liar,” “fraud,” and “felon.”
Trump: Groceries, sort of an old fashioned word. The price of groceries went through the roof… You take a look at eggs today— I mean, the eggs are double, triple, quadruple, they’re going through the roof. No, there’s some outside problem with eggs maybe.
February 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
A huge win for all of his followers who were thrilled when he stopped his town hall and instead swayed to his Maralago dinner music playlist for 30 minutes. Congrats.
Trump just terminated the Chair of the Kennedy Center and has installed himself as the new chair.

He says he will now be dictating the institution’s “art and culture” and says it “must reflect” what he chooses.
February 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Well looky there 👀
February 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Stupid social media posts? Seriously. Dude, HATERS HATE. Period. They might learn to self-edit when they age a little, but that hatred just expands, deepens, becomes more insidious. If that was my husband? JD better not eat or drink ANYTHING in my presence.
The husband of an Indian-American wife and the father of 3 Indian-American kids wants to bring back the staffer who posted “normalize Indian hate.”
February 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
What the actual what?! The "leader" of the US tells the country and the world that we have terrible security... as a reply to someone voicing concern that DOGE has access to everyone's sensitive information. He's not even close to being coherent.
Trump on DOGE obtaining Americans' personal information, including social security numbers and bank numbers: "They get it very easily. We don't have very good security in our country."
February 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
NPR definitely provides more value!!
February 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Terrifying is an understatement.
February 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
So… more farm subsidies? Or farmers, just suck it up and be patriotic?
February 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM