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hortisam.bsky.social
@hortisam.bsky.social
Displaced Southerner in a Blue state. Nature lover, horticulturist, educator, proud liberal ✡️
On this Veterans Day, honoring my sister, who retired from the USAF nine years ago. Here, she pinned the Military Parent Medal on our mother at her retirement ceremony.
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
They’re gearing up for The Hunger Games. CBP’s taking over for heads of ICE, & DT’s calling out the Guard while hinting that he’ll invoke the Insurrection Act. Meanwhile, the Commerce Sec’y says to expect ~30% of the workforce to be replaced by AI in the next two yrs.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
They are demolishing the entire East Wing of the White House—the place where Trump cowered in a bunker during the protests of May 2020. This NYT photo is emblematic of the destruction of our nation at the hands of malevolent, sociopathic cowards.
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A 2016 sign I am still taking to protests in 2025 :-(
October 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
To try to intimidate people, the regime’s various depts. have all subscribed to BlueSky. Meanwhile, its gestapo is signing spyware contracts incl. iris-scanning software, drones to video No Kings, & cell phone-hacking technology, doing 100 million $ deals w/AI co.’s to hack into your private data.
October 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a US-born virologist at the Univ. of Saskatchewan:

“America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.”
October 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
September 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
September 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Labor Day Rally in Clinton, Mass.
September 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Jim Stewartson: In exchange for giving up their homeland, two million Gazans are being offered “digital tokens” to be “eventually redeemed” in an “AI-powered smart city." This racial pogrom in collaboration with a war criminal appears to be sponsored by the PayPal Mafia.
August 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Maddow tonight: Trump is deprofessionalizing law enforcement and the military because he wants to remove any professional restraint or internal ethics or culture that might otherwise hold those forces back from what he is now going to ask them to do.

“Watch what he does, not what he says.”
August 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Scotland welcomes the Felon of the United States.
July 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Welcome to Scotland, Donald!
July 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
July 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
When will the media stop pretending FOTUS is a real president & spell it out: FELON; CRIMINAL; &, brain-addled DICTATOR empowered by a criminal majority in the SCOTUS. He’s surrounded by feckless extremist sycophants & grifters. They’re stealing our money, govt, rights, & dignity & they’ll kill us.
July 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
June 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
June 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
June 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Acton, MA - Emergency Rally: Hands Off Immigrant Families!
June 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
In Worcester, nearly 300 people gathered at the Indivisible Mass Coalition Fighting Fascism symposium.
May 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
On RFK’s National Autism Registry and Eugenics
April 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
April 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is what he does at the Easter egg roll—show a group of young children a trading card that depicts him with a bloody ear moments after the failed “assassination attempt” that saw rally attender Corey Comperatore die in the process (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images).
April 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Daffodils from the garden.
April 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
In Bolton, MA - We had 250 people protesting and lots of supporters driving by.
April 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM