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Suzanne Dimmit
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Awestruck by our beautiful world.
Wife, mom, and grandma; cat lady.
Family archivist.
Kindness matters. Shine your light!
Banner of blue and yellow. Stand with Ukraine.
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suzkd.bsky.social
Sea Hunt
#WeekTforTelevision #AlphabetChallenge
#GulfofMexico
Two young sons stand next to their father in calm ocean waters. Dad is bent over the water with a fishing net--trying to catch a minnow, as I recall. The green waters come up to the waist of the smallest boy, upper thighs of the older boy. They are very intent on what their dad is doing. Beyond them, the ocean waters turn from green to turquoise to deep blue, with a bright clear blue sky above.
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Laugh-In. #WeekTforTelevision #AlphabetChallenge

For my in-laws' 50th anniversary in 1999, we promised them a very special home-cooked meal. For the first course, we presented them with elegant shrimp cocktails. This naturally raised their expectations. When it was time for the main course, rather
Mostly bald, older man wearing blue and black plaid shirt is seated looking down at a plate of food (which is out of the picture). He is laughing so hard that his face has turned red. Older woman is seated in a wood dining chair. She is wearing a white sweatshirt decorated in a red and green holiday theme featuring a wreath, holly leaves & berries and a Christmas tree. She is laughing so hard that her face has turned red and she has her hands clutched over her heart.
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
Concise, informative, important.
Resistance is not futile.
elizaorlins.bsky.social Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 1d
Is the shutdown over? Not yet.
Tonight’s vote was only step 1 of 5.
There’s still another 60-vote hurdle, amendments, AND then the House.
Pressure matters right now—especially on Kaine, Rosen, Hassan, Shaheen.
Stay loud.
youtu.be/mdFRfeGRKfI
Shutdown NOT Over: What Tonight’s Senate Vote Actually Means
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
I HOPE this is not true, but I just left a message for each of my Senators, asking them to continue to stand firm. I truly believe that unless whatever the GOP is offering is absolutely a done deal, incontrovertible, with no chance of reneging, then the Democratic Senate must continue to #resist.
grudgie.bsky.social Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d
If this is true it’s a catastrophic failure by Democrats
axios.com Axios @axios.com · 1d
BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
Any means to their abominable ends.
victorerikray.bsky.social Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d
Republicans are for “state’s rights” when that means promoting segregation and tormenting LGBTQ folks.

When state’s rights means feeding your state’s residents, they are all in for the federal government ensuring starvation.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
The US Department of Agriculture has ordered that "states must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025".
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
There is no humane, no moral, no decent way to explain this. There simply is no concern for the well-being of every American in the doctrine of the #GOPRegime. #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
laureldavilacpa.bsky.social Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 1d
“The Trump administration told states on Saturday to “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if they do not comply.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

#Pinks #ProudBlue
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov
PLEASE stand strong on this issue. Hold the line.
#resist #AffordableCare #Healthcareforall
briantylercohen.bsky.social Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d
Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
November 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
Nothing like the afternoon sun in autumn to create a perfect feline happy place. 💙Ike in 2020.
#WeekSforShadows #AlphabetChallenge
#Caturday #catsofbluesky
The afternoon autumn sun shines through a glass door to create long shadows on the beige carpeting. A sleeping black/brown and white tabby cat lies with his hindquarters in a shadow and his front half in the sun. His white front legs and paws are stretched out in front of him and his nose is burrowed in the v-space between his paws. The sun casts a shadow of his head and ears on the carpet in front of the shadow created by the door frame.
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
#Evening on #LakeChelan #BlueSkyArtShow #sunset #WashingtonState #pnw
After sunset, quiet lake waters anchor the photo with a tall dead tree reaching up on the right. Near the top of the tree, an osprey has taken up the position from which he sleeps and hunts and feasts. Above the dark hills on the far side of the lake, emanating from the lowest point in the hills, blue and pink clouds fan out in a starburst pattern. A few small sections of blue sky peek through the clouds.
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Fleh. Measles deserves another post as outbreaks across the US and Canada continue. But we are tired of crowing about it so we wrote you a poem instead. Enjoy!
Image of a Poem. It reads: Measles - The Comeback Tour In early 2000, it was ousted with cheer, “Eliminated! Gone from here!” But in 2025, the contagion is on track, For a viral encore, a sick comeback. 1,600+ U.S. cases, outbreaks galore, Measles said, “Miss me, bitches? I’m back for more!” Vax rates dipped to 92 percent, Now classroom ick feels…different. Across the border, it plays the same show, Canada’s flare-ups grow and grow. We both may lose that “elimination” crown, If herd immunity stays broken down. And somewhere backstage, grin so wide, Measles whispers, “thanks RFK Jr., my ride!” It waited decades for this debut, But two MMRs can still give it the boot!
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
On the opposite side of the country, I can feel it, and it is glorious.

"Hope is alive.... Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair." (Zohran Mamdani)

#votesmatter
Golden clouds fill a blue sky in with pre-dawn brilliance. In the foreground and on each side of the frame, tree silhouettes provide dark contrast.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
So much this! 👇
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Reposted by Suzanne Dimmit
adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Tonight should be a good reminder to Senate Democrats they better not cave.
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
suzkd.bsky.social
An important voice from our past challenges us to do better.
lyndagood.bsky.social LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 6d
That quote from Robert F. Kennedy feels like it was written for 2025, doesn’t it? But if we’re being honest, the tragedy is that it’s not just a warning anymore it’s a mirror.
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
"We don't need to speculate about the dangers to our democracy. They're here. "

#VOTE
barackobama.bsky.social Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 6d
If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
These two have been friends for so long that their shadows have merged. #WeekSforShadows #AlphabetChallenge
#RhodeIsland #beach #EastCoastKin
Two old friends walk along a sandy beach. They are wearing warm jackets and hats to keep away the early spring chill. On the right, the blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean send waves curling up the beach. On the left, dunes are covered with green vegetation. The sun in the east casts a shadow up the beach from each man, but the shadows overlap giving the impression of a single shadow.
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
On the water. 💙
#Stunday #pnw #WashingtonState #WSF #PugetSound
Mid-afternoon sun casts its rays through wispy clouds creating a wide stream of sunlight across the dark blue waters of the Puget Sound. Where the water meets the sky, a ferry is silhouetted in the bright sunlit waters.
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
suzkd.bsky.social
Great reflection on an amazing series! Dedicated fans of neither team, we rooted for the Dodgers because the Blue Jays had beaten both of our favored teams in the playoffs. This series could NOT have been more engaging--such a ride! #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
Who needs fireworks?
#autumn #blueskyartshow #pnw #westcoastkin #tree
Looking up at a brilliant maple tree standing tall against a clear blue sky. The tree foliage transitions from green to yellow to orange to red to purple. Branches splay out in all directions, mimicking a pyrotechnic display.
November 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
I remember thinking it looked like someone had opened a box of Trix and emptied it across the hillside.
#Autumn beauty from 46 years ago along the #KancamagusHighway in #NewHampshire. #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin
Tree-covered hillsides featuring brilliant fall colors interspersed with dark evergreens. The hillside on the right has a sheer rockface near the top. In the foreground the blue waters of a mountain river flow over large tan rocks.
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
Good documentation by @kuow.org regarding one of so many bad situations in our nation. As I listened, my mind kept returning to the phrase I see often on Bluesky: #TheCrueltyIsThePoint.
#GOPRegime #JusticeforAll #DueProcess
Inside the black box of ICE detention in Tacoma, she watched her wedding day come and go
"Inside ICE Detention: A Documentary" investigates Tacoma's immigration detention center during a time of swift policy changes under the Trump administration.
www.kuow.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
This is a beautiful thread. Many thanks to the amazing people and businesses across our country who are joining together to support our neighbors in need. #SNAP #FeedTheChildren #WeThePeople #StrongerTogether
emilylhauser.bsky.social Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12d
🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.

If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.

Here's one! toastedseattle.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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bklynsoul.bsky.social
#truth
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
There is only one way to frame this.
It starts with RAC
and ends with ISM.
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12d
With more than 200,000 Black active-duty members serving in the military—historically one of the country’s few avenues of social mobility for the Black community—Hegseth’s grooming policy will no doubt have a devastating impact.

That’s no accident.
If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid
Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.
www.motherjones.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
This holds true for most, if not all, #regulations that the #GOPRegime is trying to roll back. These protective laws were not created in a vacuum. They were prompted by injuries to our planet & it's people by companies who prioritized profits over safety. Nothing has changed. The need remains.
October 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM