Josephine Richardson
@josphinerichardson.bsky.social
Just a queer lady doing her best to have a nice time despite her exquisite sensitivity to our shared reality. Wife, Mom, Trauma Therapist, Writer.
Things that are not terrible. A poem. April 29th.
April 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Things that are not terrible. A poem. April 29th.
Trump moving student loans from the Education Department to the Small Business Administration (SBA)
Because this will make it less of a nightmare from which I can never wake?
Because this will make it less of a nightmare from which I can never wake?
March 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Trump moving student loans from the Education Department to the Small Business Administration (SBA)
Because this will make it less of a nightmare from which I can never wake?
Because this will make it less of a nightmare from which I can never wake?
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As agencies scramble to comply with President Trump's Jan. 20 order terminating remote work, employees say the process has been marked by confusion, changing guidance, and frustrating conditions.
Federal workers ordered back to office find shortages of desks, Wi-Fi and toilet paper
As agencies scramble to comply with President Trump's Jan. 20 order terminating remote work, employees say the process has been marked by confusion, changing guidance and frustrating conditions.
www.npr.org
March 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
As agencies scramble to comply with President Trump's Jan. 20 order terminating remote work, employees say the process has been marked by confusion, changing guidance, and frustrating conditions.
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When masked men in plain clothes approach you as you are walking down the street, take your belongings, surround and touch and cuff you, this is how this works now? They say "we're police" and you're supposed to go with them?
March 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
When masked men in plain clothes approach you as you are walking down the street, take your belongings, surround and touch and cuff you, this is how this works now? They say "we're police" and you're supposed to go with them?
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This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute.
Spread it far and wide.
Spread it far and wide.
WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥
March 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute.
Spread it far and wide.
Spread it far and wide.
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Free speech is back, baby! But only if it agrees with Trump
March 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Free speech is back, baby! But only if it agrees with Trump
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
February 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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The 'find out' phase is here.
Jasmine Crockett Has Fiery Warning For 'Broke' Red States: 'We're In The Find Out Phase'
No lies detected 🔥
www.comicsands.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The 'find out' phase is here.
Is it seasonal depression or the fall of democracy?
February 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Is it seasonal depression or the fall of democracy?
Most helpful commentary with all the other Crooked Media shows @staceyabrams.com loved the talk with Kate Shaw from @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Most helpful commentary with all the other Crooked Media shows @staceyabrams.com loved the talk with Kate Shaw from @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
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While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent.
SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.
SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.
February 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent.
SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.
SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.
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This feels so relevant right now.
February 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This feels so relevant right now.
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This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.
February 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.
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We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
February 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
Lansing, Michigan protest today
February 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Lansing, Michigan protest today
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Olaf Scholz rebuked U.S. Vice President JD Vance for suggesting that far-right parties should not be shut out of government. Germany's other political parties have refused to work with the far-right AfD.
German chancellor slams Vance's call for Europe to be inclusive of far-right parties
Olaf Scholz rebuked U.S. Vice President JD Vance for suggesting that far-right parties should not be shut out of government. Germany's other political parties have refused to work with the far-right A...
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February 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Olaf Scholz rebuked U.S. Vice President JD Vance for suggesting that far-right parties should not be shut out of government. Germany's other political parties have refused to work with the far-right AfD.
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With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show.
But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.
But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.
February 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show.
But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.
But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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Fascinating how many liberals want to accept the unproved premise that we are less happy and justify it.
I reject even the premise. Self-reporting is not a reliable measure.
Considering how conservatives *act* like bitter, angry people, I'd think they aren't as happy as they say.
I reject even the premise. Self-reporting is not a reliable measure.
Considering how conservatives *act* like bitter, angry people, I'd think they aren't as happy as they say.
Literally, this can be explained in one simple way: Conservative women are told they're failures unless they plaster on a smile and pretend everything is great, even when it's not.
Liberal women aren't so oppressed and feel free to want more.
ifstudies.org/blog/why-so-...
Liberal women aren't so oppressed and feel free to want more.
ifstudies.org/blog/why-so-...
Why So Blue: Liberal Women are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
Less marriage and religion help explain liberal women’s unhappiness.
ifstudies.org
February 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Fascinating how many liberals want to accept the unproved premise that we are less happy and justify it.
I reject even the premise. Self-reporting is not a reliable measure.
Considering how conservatives *act* like bitter, angry people, I'd think they aren't as happy as they say.
I reject even the premise. Self-reporting is not a reliable measure.
Considering how conservatives *act* like bitter, angry people, I'd think they aren't as happy as they say.
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I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.
February 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.
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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tyler Hamilton on Substack
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
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If your argument is "sure, a terrible modern event has a parallel in the 1920s and 30s but don't worry we turned out just fine", might I suggest reading about the 1940s.
February 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If your argument is "sure, a terrible modern event has a parallel in the 1920s and 30s but don't worry we turned out just fine", might I suggest reading about the 1940s.
Remember who shows up for you and who does not.
February 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Remember who shows up for you and who does not.