Rosemary Conroy Hughes
@sukytawdry.bsky.social
Cookie-baking, crocheting, dog-loving old lady who didn't expect to spend my 70s fighting the same racist, misogynist, right wing horseshit I battled decades ago.
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October 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Tomorrow will be a Thursday with no WTF podcast. I can't get my brain around that.
October 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Tomorrow will be a Thursday with no WTF podcast. I can't get my brain around that.
Fiona and I play a game on washday. I strip the bed and drape the sheets around her and say, Where's Fiona? I can't find her! It never gets old. We laugh and laugh.
August 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Fiona and I play a game on washday. I strip the bed and drape the sheets around her and say, Where's Fiona? I can't find her! It never gets old. We laugh and laugh.
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Saw a display for s’mores where they had both normal Hershey and Hershey Cookies and Cream bars and I’m not Mr traditionalist over here but that is the end of western civilization
May 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Saw a display for s’mores where they had both normal Hershey and Hershey Cookies and Cream bars and I’m not Mr traditionalist over here but that is the end of western civilization
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Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
April 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
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Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.
March 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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An entire sea cannot sink a ship unless the water gets inside of the ship. The same with the negativity of the world: it can’t bring you down unless you let it get inside of you. We cannot control what happens around us, but we can control our reaction to it. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊
March 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
An entire sea cannot sink a ship unless the water gets inside of the ship. The same with the negativity of the world: it can’t bring you down unless you let it get inside of you. We cannot control what happens around us, but we can control our reaction to it. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊
Fetterman-Golden 2028 - "You never need to worry about us selling out because we already did." @fetterman.senate.gov
March 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Fetterman-Golden 2028 - "You never need to worry about us selling out because we already did." @fetterman.senate.gov
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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Thank you, Rep. Al Green. 🙏💜
March 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Thank you, Rep. Al Green. 🙏💜
When the big picture seems overwhelming, focus on local issues. PA HB 109 would require the PA Department of Environmental Protection to impose additional requirements on permitting requests in environmental justice areas. PA residents -- call your state rep.
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Delco Residents, Activists Support Proposed Environmental Justice Bill – LWV DelCo Environmental Clearinghouse
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March 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
When the big picture seems overwhelming, focus on local issues. PA HB 109 would require the PA Department of Environmental Protection to impose additional requirements on permitting requests in environmental justice areas. PA residents -- call your state rep.
envirodelco.org/2025/03/atte...
envirodelco.org/2025/03/atte...
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🚨 PSA for Protesters 🚨
March 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
🚨 PSA for Protesters 🚨
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Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix*
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
February 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix*
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc…
They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.
They're calling the July 4, 2026 celebration the semiquincentennial. Half of 500 years. Instead of fireworks, we'll continue this dumpster fire. Instead of parades, a bobsled run to hell in our handbaskets. No need to plan ahead for the sesquimillenial or whatever the fuck comes next. We're done.
February 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
They're calling the July 4, 2026 celebration the semiquincentennial. Half of 500 years. Instead of fireworks, we'll continue this dumpster fire. Instead of parades, a bobsled run to hell in our handbaskets. No need to plan ahead for the sesquimillenial or whatever the fuck comes next. We're done.
A generously phrased comment on the Democratic leadership from @hcrichardson.bsky.social : "A little more starch would not be amiss."
February 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A generously phrased comment on the Democratic leadership from @hcrichardson.bsky.social : "A little more starch would not be amiss."
This survey includes personal details to use when calling your elected representatives. Knowing that @fetterman.senate.gov has a tattoo for every murder that occurred while he was mayor of Braddock, I told him he doesn't have room on his body to tattoo all the deaths he & his colleagues are causing.
Executive Summary EO
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February 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This survey includes personal details to use when calling your elected representatives. Knowing that @fetterman.senate.gov has a tattoo for every murder that occurred while he was mayor of Braddock, I told him he doesn't have room on his body to tattoo all the deaths he & his colleagues are causing.
Sometimes the illiteracy of headline writers speaks truth, or even poetry. Yes, the White House reigns in Musk -- ruling his power-loving heart --just as Musk reigns in the White House.
February 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Sometimes the illiteracy of headline writers speaks truth, or even poetry. Yes, the White House reigns in Musk -- ruling his power-loving heart --just as Musk reigns in the White House.
I'm not much of a football fan, but GO BIRDS and also this.
February 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm not much of a football fan, but GO BIRDS and also this.
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NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.
February 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.
I've been struggling to keep up with the fast moving coup at Treasury and the technical details of servers and suchlike. @pkrugman.bsky.social led me to @nathantankus.bsky.social and now I understand the situation well enough to be truly terrified. Thanks, guys.
February 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I've been struggling to keep up with the fast moving coup at Treasury and the technical details of servers and suchlike. @pkrugman.bsky.social led me to @nathantankus.bsky.social and now I understand the situation well enough to be truly terrified. Thanks, guys.
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EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic"
www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...
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Day Five of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Not “Read Only” access anymore
If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...
www.crisesnotes.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic"
www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...
www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...