Karen Bruntrager
@musicalflamingo.bsky.social
Empath. Old enough to have fought for the Equal Rights Amendment. Hating that we're here again.
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A favorite thread from last year: Some of the best art from different editions of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."
"'Twas the Night Before Christmas" turned 200 last year: It was first published in the Troy (N.Y.) 'Sentinel' on December 23, 1823.
Since my family has an unusually large collection of copies, here is a 🧵 of the poem—with some of the best work of illustrators from the last two centuries.
Since my family has an unusually large collection of copies, here is a 🧵 of the poem—with some of the best work of illustrators from the last two centuries.
December 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A favorite thread from last year: Some of the best art from different editions of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."
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We all know it's soup season, but did we also know it's 💩season? Norovirus causes 🤮 and 💩 and cases rise in the winter. It's transmitted the "fecal-oral" route -- that's what you think.
🙌 Wash your hands, people!
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
🙌 Wash your hands, people!
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
This highly contagious "winter vomiting disease" is surging across the country
Norovirus can cause extreme cases of vomiting and diarrhea.
www.axios.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
We all know it's soup season, but did we also know it's 💩season? Norovirus causes 🤮 and 💩 and cases rise in the winter. It's transmitted the "fecal-oral" route -- that's what you think.
🙌 Wash your hands, people!
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
🙌 Wash your hands, people!
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/n...
www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
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The Second Advent window opens to a place of wonder and magic: a bookstore. And not just any old bookstore, either, but the bookstore owned by Tabby Cat.
Be sure to open each comment in order to fully enter this beautiful realm.
#Advent #Day2
Be sure to open each comment in order to fully enter this beautiful realm.
#Advent #Day2
The Second Window. Once upon a time, there was a green-eyed Tabby Cat who ran a bookshop by the Christ Church gate of Canterbury Cathedral. It was a marvellous place, four stories high, with treasures on every shelf & free buttered toast, plum cake & hot sweet tea for all who visited.
December 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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this has been one of my favorite accounts on social media since it began.
be sure you're following @ufw.bsky.social, and remember every day who actually keeps every one of us fed. it ain't wall street.
be sure you're following @ufw.bsky.social, and remember every day who actually keeps every one of us fed. it ain't wall street.
"Justo" is harvesting lettuce in Madera County CA. He labors 6 days a week, working 8-10 hrs shifts. "It's hard repetitive work. We have to be bent over all the time. We cut the lettuce clean off the extra leaves bag it and put it in a box. I earn minimum wage." #WeFeedYou
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
this has been one of my favorite accounts on social media since it began.
be sure you're following @ufw.bsky.social, and remember every day who actually keeps every one of us fed. it ain't wall street.
be sure you're following @ufw.bsky.social, and remember every day who actually keeps every one of us fed. it ain't wall street.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones)
This is BRILLIANT. Watch the whole thing. 🔥
substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
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SNAP and Medicaid cuts disproportionately affect homeless veterans. Veterans Day is just around the corner. You can help. secure.givelively.org/teams/vetera...
secure.givelively.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
SNAP and Medicaid cuts disproportionately affect homeless veterans. Veterans Day is just around the corner. You can help. secure.givelively.org/teams/vetera...
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Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"
I've saved her some time.
I've saved her some time.
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"
I've saved her some time.
I've saved her some time.
Agree!
I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Agree!
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Cyril E. Power, "The Escalator," c. 1929 collections.mfa.org/objects/479542
September 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Cyril E. Power, "The Escalator," c. 1929 collections.mfa.org/objects/479542
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Times like these call for
—courage, not capitulation
—truth-telling, not kowtowing to fear and lies
—standing up for the Constitution, not forsaking all the Americans who sacrificed their lives for our democracy
—courage, not capitulation
—truth-telling, not kowtowing to fear and lies
—standing up for the Constitution, not forsaking all the Americans who sacrificed their lives for our democracy
September 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Times like these call for
—courage, not capitulation
—truth-telling, not kowtowing to fear and lies
—standing up for the Constitution, not forsaking all the Americans who sacrificed their lives for our democracy
—courage, not capitulation
—truth-telling, not kowtowing to fear and lies
—standing up for the Constitution, not forsaking all the Americans who sacrificed their lives for our democracy
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Just putting this here for anyone who might like to hear Bobby Kennedy's remarks to a predominantly black audience in Indianapolis on the evening of April 4, 1968, after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2kW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2kW...
Indianapolis, 1968: Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King and a historic call for peace
YouTube video by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
www.youtube.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Just putting this here for anyone who might like to hear Bobby Kennedy's remarks to a predominantly black audience in Indianapolis on the evening of April 4, 1968, after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2kW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2kW...
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"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?"
There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one.
(thread)
There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one.
(thread)
September 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?"
There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one.
(thread)
There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one.
(thread)
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Protect your community from ICE: Partner with local businesses to put up signs clearly marking “Staff Only” areas that can’t be entered without a warrant. Learn more: act.indivisible.org/...
August 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Protect your community from ICE: Partner with local businesses to put up signs clearly marking “Staff Only” areas that can’t be entered without a warrant. Learn more: act.indivisible.org/...
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Seriously, this is a MUST-WATCH brought to you by Keith Edwards!
#Revolution!
#FightFascism!
#WTFAreWeWaitingFor!?
#Revolution!
#FightFascism!
#WTFAreWeWaitingFor!?
August 9, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Seriously, this is a MUST-WATCH brought to you by Keith Edwards!
#Revolution!
#FightFascism!
#WTFAreWeWaitingFor!?
#Revolution!
#FightFascism!
#WTFAreWeWaitingFor!?