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HelenKP

@htkdem.bsky.social

Old name on Twitter was HelenKPDem. Lifetime Dem, East Coast, Never Trumper. Hate drama. Do not care about how many followers I have or you have. Fighting for women's rights since 1973. Snarky is my talent.

created November 13, 2024

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Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Strength in numbers, it's what they fear

2/9/2025, 1:17:59 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

What jobs? All I see are higher prices at the grocery store

2/9/2025, 12:18:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

We don't even realize how much power we have, both as the working class and the consumer. We could shut it all down, if we unite.

2/9/2025, 12:07:46 AM | 15 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ❌👑 하늘 초록색 (@cielosverdes.bsky.social) reposted

Get to DC if you are able to Sept. 6! Info: WeAreDC.net ❤️‍🩹 Please share on socials and push this out through other channels to any peeps who might like to march. @thekattalk.bsky.social

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1/9/2025, 3:29:34 AM | 1272 697 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Funny, up until a week ago, I was able to get all vaccines for free!

1/9/2025, 9:50:17 PM | 32 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

for a car accident? geezz...that cheapens the award, no?

1/9/2025, 9:30:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

But we are the consumers and we do have some power over much of the companies revenue

1/9/2025, 8:26:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Been through the dot.com crisis and housing, red flags everywhere. If in the market, protect now. Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered...

1/9/2025, 8:24:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

And by end, he means dispose of anyone who is struggling with mental health

31/8/2025, 6:23:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social)

We've known this for a long time substack.com/@closertothe...

31/8/2025, 12:03:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

I live on the Cheseapeake Bay, we harvest a lot of oysters, but never in the summer! Do not eat any raw seafood that come from warm waters. I don't even eat our oysters raw until December and then only if my husband catches them.

31/8/2025, 11:40:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

While he's playing "let's fuck with Americans mind" Americans are dying from no Healthcare and going to bed hungry. I hate him more than he hates us.

31/8/2025, 1:46:40 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Is that a real post? Holy shit

31/8/2025, 1:26:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Why, do they need trash picked up and mulching? That's what our military does now.

31/8/2025, 1:22:53 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe those tight pants are cutting off blood supply to his brain?

31/8/2025, 12:55:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

And consumers who those charges were ultimately passed on to? Looking at you, coffee that i paid $9 more per bag than 2 weeks ago!

30/8/2025, 1:51:37 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

And cook the hell out of everything

30/8/2025, 1:48:45 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd stock up on anti diarrhea meds and electrolytes powder drinks now.

30/8/2025, 1:47:56 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Apologies to my gay friends, but he's gay, right? Watch the video with no sound.

30/8/2025, 1:24:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Can we get a refund for the ones we already paid ?

30/8/2025, 1:15:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

If he didn't call you, Sir, it didn't happen...

30/8/2025, 1:02:27 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

shocked, I tell you, shocked!

29/8/2025, 11:37:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Guess public schools are ignored? I don't want my taxes going to any "faith " group, thats why they are tax-exempt, fund your own beliefs

29/8/2025, 11:31:17 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

I want a refund on my groceries!! Illegal tax

29/8/2025, 11:27:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

well, it's been such a shitshow that he might just be right. For Kennedy to be the jewel, says a lot about the others.

29/8/2025, 10:30:25 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Marc, does the Posse Act not prevent him from going into states without congress approval? DC he had the right, no Governor, but not states.

29/8/2025, 10:27:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

an ex (as far as we know he's an ex, perhaps current) heroin addict with brain worms with no medical degree .... yeah, right.

29/8/2025, 10:26:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

I'll say it again, I was project manager for a contracting firm that build hangars and housing for the DOS. NO WAY did that cost 218M to build. Follow the money trail.

29/8/2025, 10:24:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

my first thought...they'll just f'k their way to winning? hope their partners are consenting adults, I mean, they do have a bad reputation for underage rape

29/8/2025, 6:51:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope all of their kids turn out to be liberals...reject your parents hatred, kids. Be on the right side of history.

29/8/2025, 6:49:44 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 5:40:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

it's insensitive and demeaning to those who know some fictional character in the sky isn't going to stop what man created. Their god picks and chooses who should live and who should die? Innocent children, included? It's the guns, dummy

29/8/2025, 2:55:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

mission = regime

29/8/2025, 2:16:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Us old ladies have always known we will never be real "people" but I'm surprised Leavitt said it out loud.

29/8/2025, 2:15:17 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

All I know is my grocery bill is 25% higher and I buy the same stuff every week. Coffee? 3 months ago it was 8.99 and same bag is now $15.99, so I don't care what their numbers say, I only know what my budget sees.

29/8/2025, 1:00:42 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

If prayers worked, no child would die.

29/8/2025, 12:46:09 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

So, no republican lead state has crime?

28/8/2025, 5:55:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

note to self "my estrogen made me do it"

28/8/2025, 5:06:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

if you can't blame the guns, then at least acknowledge radical indoctrination, that's more dangerous to the mind than drugs.

28/8/2025, 5:04:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

prepared?? we'll be lucky if we even know about one, just people dropping dead all around us.

28/8/2025, 2:10:24 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, this is concerning.....to put it mildly.

28/8/2025, 1:18:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

I have to admit, I've met Governor Moore 2 times, and he is very charismatic, more so in person. What i remember most is he engaged with me one on one, in a room full of very important people, and he never once scanned the room looking for someone more important than me. Total connection.

28/8/2025, 2:28:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Did I miss where these drugs originated from?

28/8/2025, 1:43:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Supply and demand

28/8/2025, 1:41:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Who knew he was the mitochondrial whisperer?

28/8/2025, 12:57:41 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

How can their family or friends ever respect them after this? So gross

28/8/2025, 12:40:42 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

And soon,a covid shot

28/8/2025, 12:37:08 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

pretty soon, we'll have to have one in our homes, or end up in camp.

27/8/2025, 3:24:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Very North Korea cringe vibe

27/8/2025, 12:32:29 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Why do you think so many "prisons " are being built? The immigrants were the guinea pig, it's us they want, and no, I'm not overstating this

27/8/2025, 12:00:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

This needs a "vomit " warning

26/8/2025, 11:52:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) reposted

PRITZKER to Trump: “If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.”

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26/8/2025, 8:47:46 AM | 3023 784 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

ummm....I think that's called a Civil War?

26/8/2025, 12:49:07 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

The best businessman doesn't file for bankruptcy, how many times? I've lost count..

26/8/2025, 12:56:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted

Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever. Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.” See where this is going?

25/8/2025, 10:50:20 PM | 8519 2754 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture PritzkerPosting (@pritzkerposting.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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25/8/2025, 8:55:55 PM | 945 176 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social)

Our democracy is at stake. Journalists, do your damn job or find another profession

26/8/2025, 12:24:43 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

It's like the evil is seeping out...yuck

25/8/2025, 8:13:31 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

He left out "moron" greatest moron president of our lifetime

25/8/2025, 8:12:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

making corporations and stock holders richer. if he wanted to make "americans" richer, he'd demand that workers pay keep up with CEO pay

25/8/2025, 5:25:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

YES!! Maybe then we can get rid of insurrectionist Andy MAGA Harris. Do it!

25/8/2025, 5:23:54 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

he really thinks saying this stuff makes him look smart....

25/8/2025, 5:21:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

and they are getting away with it, us natural born (most of us) who don't support this regime are next....I'm not overstating that.

25/8/2025, 4:51:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

create stories = lie, if he has to lie, he will to get whatever he wants.

25/8/2025, 4:50:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

a lot of people had shitty childhoods, but we didn't grow up and take it out on the rest of the world. He's cruel and takes pleasure out of hurting others. Well, JD, that won't bring back your childhood, knock it off!

25/8/2025, 4:49:03 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

but without congress approval, he only has the power for DC, national guard deployment in states must come from governors , not that Trump follows the law, just saying. Stand your ground Governors!

25/8/2025, 4:19:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

a business is about protecting profits, a country is about protecting people. very bad idea.

25/8/2025, 2:46:08 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

He's my governor and I agree, this is out of character, but drastic times call for drastic measures. He's a military man and a Rhodes Scholar. He's pissed off that the stupid draft dodger is threatening to send the military to his/my state.

25/8/2025, 1:42:33 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

They all need to make fun of him! He's a joke, a schoolyard bully on a power trip. Take the power from him. Good Job Gov!

25/8/2025, 1:38:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Bias....that's rich coming from a Fox/Newmax dictator

25/8/2025, 12:51:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

I lived in Tx for 12 yrs, no thanks. Md is home for me

25/8/2025, 12:00:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump?

25/8/2025, 12:37:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

That's my governor!!

25/8/2025, 12:26:28 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

The president does not have the authority to activate national guard in states, only governor. You hear that national guardsmen? Unfortunately, the only exception is DC.

25/8/2025, 12:25:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes that limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States

25/8/2025, 12:16:41 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Am I missing the part where gloves, a ladder and climbing at night won't make a difference no matter what color? Who got this contract? Follow the money trail

24/8/2025, 8:21:45 PM | 33 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 (@50501movement.bsky.social) reposted

CHICAGO — With the news that the Trump regime plans to deploy the military to the city—against the wishes of Pritzker and the people of Illinois—consider joining this webinar Sunday (8/24) at 5 PM ET to learn how you can help remind military members to honor their oaths. Register at bit.ly/oath0824

24/8/2025, 2:30:01 AM | 1512 816 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this still a thing? Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of the U.S. military (Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps) to enforce domestic laws. It prevents the military from acting as a police force within the United States.

24/8/2025, 11:38:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Love it! You got the sound of their chatting, I was lazy, inside looking out.

23/8/2025, 11:27:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Short article...- good riddance -....the end

23/8/2025, 1:45:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

We have very high levels of arsenic in our county water, I'm on well and have a filter

23/8/2025, 12:37:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

That's not pam bondi

23/8/2025, 12:32:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

"So, give us the dirt on the only man in the world who can give you a pardon " Maxwell: "super duper nice guy" lol, do they think we're as stupid as Maga?

23/8/2025, 12:31:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

how to beg for a pardon 101

22/8/2025, 11:30:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

And, how long have you been in DC? why are you only addressing this issue now? We've been self employed for 30 yrs...no one has made a difference in our middle class world. Maybe I should have become a politician, seems an easy road to millionaires club.

22/8/2025, 10:58:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Even more...we're both self employed solely proprietors. It's crazy!

22/8/2025, 10:54:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Maryland

22/8/2025, 10:40:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social)

Interesting!

22/8/2025, 10:38:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

That's what I hate the most. The fear in our community. It's cruel and ICE seems to get off on that fear. F them!

22/8/2025, 8:32:34 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, I'd take vampire bats over trump any day....

22/8/2025, 8:24:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Yay!!

22/8/2025, 8:18:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish I was living in Scotland right now!! Want to switch??

22/8/2025, 7:20:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

yes, because those of us who grew up in the 60's and 70's turned out so well from being hit in school...

22/8/2025, 1:22:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

The part they don't understand, seeing history about white people abusing black people isn't why white people feel bad about themselves. It's part fear, that they'll become the minority and be treated the way they treat others and part not having a gov that works to make the peoples lives better

22/8/2025, 12:39:41 PM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's see....do I need a place to buy sheets or do I need to protect the constitution at all means...tough one.

22/8/2025, 11:48:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think the female police officer is feeling it...

22/8/2025, 11:41:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

yes, I thought so too.

22/8/2025, 11:32:00 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

maryland

22/8/2025, 11:31:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

where is here? I'm in maryland.

22/8/2025, 11:31:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HelenKP (@htkdem.bsky.social) reply parent

maryland. didn't have as many resident ones this year, but they migrate over the atlantic and we're on the shore

22/8/2025, 11:30:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view