Renee
@rg3.bsky.social
NC native, blue dot, family tree roots run super deep in this Southern soil. But I’m tired…editor/writer, traveler, mom to 3 daughters.
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Renee
@rg3.bsky.social
· Nov 12
The more ya know: tea pot sculpture in cover photo? Commemorates Oct 1774 Edenton Tea Party, 51 women gathered to send “no more” letter to King George III, regarded as first woman-led protest in America! Edenton, NC
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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
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a drunk, a junkie, a kremlin asset, and a bunch of thieves and sex criminals crowd into a bar — bartender says, what is this, a cabinet meeting?
February 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
a drunk, a junkie, a kremlin asset, and a bunch of thieves and sex criminals crowd into a bar — bartender says, what is this, a cabinet meeting?
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"Here are history’s new actors: Reality show dregs, cable news hair gel models, pro wrestling moguls, wastrel political heirs driven insane by online conspiracy theories." inthesetimes.com/article/dona...
The Power of Dumb
In the Second Trump Era, don't expect reality to be realistic.
inthesetimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:53 PM
"Here are history’s new actors: Reality show dregs, cable news hair gel models, pro wrestling moguls, wastrel political heirs driven insane by online conspiracy theories." inthesetimes.com/article/dona...
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Trump ran one of the most successful disinformation operations in modern history.
“Many voters headed to the polls convinced that border crossings are higher than ever before (they are not), violent crime rates are rising (untrue) and inflation is soaring (ditto). We will never know how much this garbage may have swayed voters…”
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
Opinion | The Right Triumphed Over Social Media and Helped Elect Trump
Under heavy pressure from the right, and with the help of Elon Musk, the leading social media platforms opened the floodgates for propaganda.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Trump ran one of the most successful disinformation operations in modern history.
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In a sane world, elected officials would care more about their country than keeping their jobs.
November 19, 2024 at 10:13 PM
In a sane world, elected officials would care more about their country than keeping their jobs.
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More than anything else, I am pissed AF that we had/have a global pandemic and we *totally fucking skipped the roaring 20s* and went straight to fascism. I want drunkenness! I want excess! I want flappers! 0/10 do not recommend.
November 19, 2024 at 4:44 AM
More than anything else, I am pissed AF that we had/have a global pandemic and we *totally fucking skipped the roaring 20s* and went straight to fascism. I want drunkenness! I want excess! I want flappers! 0/10 do not recommend.
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Don't look at the news
Don't look at the news
Don't look at the news
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Oh, for fuck's sake
Don't look at the news
Don't look at the news
(Looks at the news)
Oh, for fuck's sake
November 13, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Don't look at the news
Don't look at the news
Don't look at the news
(Looks at the news)
Oh, for fuck's sake
Don't look at the news
Don't look at the news
(Looks at the news)
Oh, for fuck's sake
The more ya know: tea pot sculpture in cover photo? Commemorates Oct 1774 Edenton Tea Party, 51 women gathered to send “no more” letter to King George III, regarded as first woman-led protest in America! Edenton, NC
November 12, 2024 at 3:21 AM
The more ya know: tea pot sculpture in cover photo? Commemorates Oct 1774 Edenton Tea Party, 51 women gathered to send “no more” letter to King George III, regarded as first woman-led protest in America! Edenton, NC