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Leigh G
@yogaleigh.bsky.social
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Writer, yoga & movement teacher, seeker of peace. 50 yrs on left. Quit law long ago; still remember stuff. On mstdn.social @BluegrassRoots Spoutible @yogaleigh Bradenton
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Cost of snap to average taxpayer per year = $36 Max amount qualifying households receive per month = $360 Raise in hourly pay that could make it unneeded = $3 Number of Walmart employees receiving SNAP = 14,500 Walmart's net profit last year = $21 billion Amount illegal immigrants get from SNAP = $0
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I just got a foster cat from the shelter. They think he's 15 & don't know his name--since he's been here I mentioned "Tux" is too often given to tuxedo cats & his head shot up so I may have learned his name. The blessing is I get to love & cuddle this baby & the shelter system takes care of the vet
Picture of tuxedo cat
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Turned out great for her...
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I wonder if Louis XVI would say it's a good idea...
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Peons expressing their opinion of ballroom in 1917
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change I am changing the things I cannot accept --Angela Davis No Kings Mass Protest October 18 2025
October 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Picture of two senior ladies crocheting & wearing t-shirts that say "I am Aunt Tifa". Above says: The Revolution Will Be Crocheted. Tea at 4, Riot at 5. #GRANDMASUNITE #UMBRELLASQUAD
October 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Can I tell you a secret? I don't care if there are undocumented immigrants in this country. I think it's a non-issue. Without social security numbers they're not getting the welfare people claim they're getting, the vast majority of them are normal people trying to live a better life. This whole wall deport-the-illegals bullshit is just the one percent convincing the working poor to blame a subset of the working poor for the fact that they're all poor, instead of realizing they're all poor due to vast income inequality and resource price inflation in combination with wage stagnation. The existence of another poor person is not why you're poor. It's because the people who control everything refuse to increase your wages. Jessie Memer
October 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Don't say anything controversial, just talk about killing homeless people. Cartoonist P. Byrnes Caglecartoons.com 2025
September 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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D.C. didn't air Jimmy Kimmel. Advertisers who had ads on the alternate programming to boycott are: Wendy's, Jeep, KIA, Skechers, Cirque Du Soleil. AMP, Safe Step Walk in Tubs
September 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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August 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I think I made the picture better--can't stand the sight of him:
July 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Imagine cheering on people in power who are actively targeting and harming the hungry, the poor, the sick, the elderly, the veteran, the disabled, the different, and the stranger and still somehow expecting people to believe you follow Jesus.
July 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Rev William Barber: Please don't just blame Trump for where we are now. Name all those who have lied for him, upheld him, covered for him, put false religion around him, & enabled him. If we end up in war, there must not be selective amnesia. Anyone who didn't speak up bears the blame.
June 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Appreciating Obama today
June 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Barack Obama Appreciation Day June 14, 2025
June 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Happy Obama Day!
Picture of Obama
June 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I think I made it better- I really don't like looking at his face.
June 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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It all has me thinking a lot about where "let them eat cake" led, how interesting it is none of these folks seem to know the history, and contemplating what their fates will be this time...
May 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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What the Republican party has become: friend to angry white guys, authoritarian governments, rich people trying to avoid taxes, and nazi sympathizers. Enemy of science, education, religious charity, affordable health care, rule of law and the defense of democracy
May 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I fear the Trump admin. will plant violent protesters among our peaceful protests. They will use this as an excuse to use force agnst us. From this moment forward at every protest we must do the following: The moment violence of property damage begins, EVERY OTHER PROTESTER must immediately sit on the floor or ground in silence w/ signs down. The media needs to film this. This will reveal paid fake thugs posing as protesters becoming violent. The sitting down muts spread like a "wave" in a football stadium throughout the crowd of protesters. Local police officers will immediately see WHO is doing the damage & the rest of us will demonstrate our non-violent innocence & retain our Constitutional right to peaceful protest. Retweet, repost, etc.
May 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Three things preventing a better world 1. Too many in the 99% worship the 1% and want to be the 1% 2. The 1% have 2 parties in power that serve their interests; the 99% have zero 3. The 99% are divided with culture wars to prevent us from building class solidarity and overthrowing the 1%
May 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Derby time often finds me looking around to see if anything new on my grandfather and/or his horses has been uploaded. This time I found a pic that's been up for a while w/o turning up in earlier searches of Chilhowee, 2d to Black Gold '24 KY Derby, beat Black Gold few weeks later at Latonia Derby
May 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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RFK: "Autism is a preventable disease." Fact: Diseases are something you get, autism is a neurodevelopmental condition and a natural variation of the human genome that you are born with. Autistic people are not broken. Autistic people are not damaged. Autism is not preventable. Autism is not curable. You know what is a preventable disease? Measles
April 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Wait'll they find out what peasants can do...
April 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM