Torchmama🦋
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Torchmama🦋
@torchmama.bsky.social
💙💙💙💙💙 Love to bike, cook, hike, sail, ski, travel etc etc. Hangglider pilot of yore. Single mom, taking each day one at a time. I'm never going back! Go Blue!
Short ribs and mashed potatoes
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Ms. Brown speaking the truth 🔥
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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The New England Journal of Medicine (@nejm.org) and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (@cidrap.bsky.social) will share regular public health alerts - information formerly provided by the CDC MMWR.

#medsky

www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication
Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
www.statnews.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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This dirty funding bill also is Trump corruption at its worst:

- a late night, 11th hour deal
- the personal enrichment of 8 Senators at $500k each
- complicity from Congressional Republicans

And all on the backs of a “deal”that continues the theft of health care from Americans. Shame.
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Fetterman’s stroke damaged the part of his brain responsible for empathy.

He is now as badly dain bramaged as the rest of MAGA, that also has under-developed brains.
The guy who literally survived a stroke because of accessible healthcare now parrots GOP talking points that healthcare is extreme. Fuck off, Fetterman.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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This is all thanks to the weakness of Merrick Garland as AG, and the weakness of Joe Biden to tolerate a complicit and ineffective AG!

I so wish that some plucky Black female lawyer on social media had spent almost every day of the Biden admin screaming about and warning about the risks of that
REPUBLICAN Rep. @repchiproy is rightly APPALLED that hagerty & @marshablackburn and others snuck a provision to let senators sue taxpayers for $500,000 MINIMUM for being investigated as part of Trump’s insurrection into the government funding bill.

Insane corruption.
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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The people STILL have power!
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.

So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.

Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Since it’s @scaramucci.bsky.social talking about how Tim Mellon is the “Epstein connection you don’t know about,” I kinda wish I’d made the connection 11 days ago. But alas, it was two weeks ago.
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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If Chuck Schumer was a stronger leader, he would have been able to convince most of these senators to hold the line.

I’m terribly disappointed in him.
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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William Wolfe—a friend of Kevin Roberts & co-editor of the explicit “Statement on Christian Nationalism” manifesto—wants his fellow right wingers to know that “If you’re attacking @JDVance” (whose deputy press secretary is Tucker Carlson’s son), then “you’re not on the team.” Replies are brutal. 1/
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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23/ Related thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
This week, WaPo published a “profile” re: Chris Buskirk—who co-founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network w/ JD Vance. Curiously, the profile omitted Buskirk’s ties to “Christian Nationalism” via American Reformer (where he is a director), which supports William Wolfe’s organization. This guy ⬇️ 1/
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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24/ Related thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
Trump has tapped Project 2025 leader Russ Vought to lead the Office of Budget & Management, which is the “nerve center of the federal gov” (per Vought). Last year, Vought tweeted that he was “proud to work w/ William Wolfe to scope out a sound Christian Nationalism.” 1/
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Colorado just passed two ballot measures to increase taxes (I’m oversimplifying, but that’s the practical effect) on people earning over $300,000 a year to fund a school meals program. $100,000,000 for kids to eat. Which is really how this should work.
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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After Trump’s major losses yesterday, the White House says it’s preparing executive orders aimed at changing how U.S. elections are run, citing so-called “blatant fraud” as the reason. It’s clear they just can’t accept losing.
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Blueberry scones this morning and 2 pans of Italian meatballs going into the freezer.
November 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The Trump administration’s lawlessness cannot be ignored.

Period.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Satellite imagery reveals crimson stains from Sudanese carnage, unmasking RSF butchers' blitzkrieg in Darfur: bodies sprawl in neighborhoods, hospitals, and outskirts within 72 brutal hours, echoing a genocide's grim resurgence. #DarfurGenocide
November 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Hegseth doesn't dispute the existence of a memo planning for the establishment of a "National Guard response force that's gonna be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by April 2026."
October 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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it's hard to Nazi what's going on here
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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it's hard to Nazi what's going on here
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM