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Katie B ❌

@katiebbsky.bsky.social

created January 25, 2025

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social)

Is it me, or has today been the absolute worst news day since like, forever? Feel like my heart is just laying on the floor in a million pieces. Even if I could pick them all up, I'll never get it back together right. 💔

4/9/2025, 4:05:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

I know a snapshot is not the whole picture, but she looks good to me. Her color is great. Hope you'll have her home soon!

4/9/2025, 3:43:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 4:50:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

I have read that there are patients whose personality actually does change post heart-transplant. Super interesting subject IMO.

2/9/2025, 4:45:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.

2/9/2025, 12:01:06 AM | 6972 1723 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Yay for Belgium!!!

2/9/2025, 4:21:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

1/9/2025, 7:00:02 PM | 32 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Humor For Resistance (@funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social) reposted

Source: speedlimit15 on tumblr

Source: speedlimit15 on tumblr - you can't even run away and join the circus anymore
1/9/2025, 5:09:49 PM | 44 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Babysitting - started out at $.50-$.75 per hour. It was much less than minimum wage at the time; today kids want $15 an hour.

1/9/2025, 5:07:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm (@wolvendamien.bsky.social) reposted

People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.

1/9/2025, 2:55:25 PM | 2492 841 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social)

How to fill in and chief celebrates Labor Day.

1/9/2025, 4:47:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't know. For this to be him, he would have to have craters so fast and so hard I can't think of what might've caused it. Not to put a damper on things lol.

1/9/2025, 4:47:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

TFW your heart drops to the pit of your stomach…every single goddamn day from now on. The cruelty is the point.

1/9/2025, 4:38:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

"Not fit for human consumption" is my go-to. 😁

1/9/2025, 12:25:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture United Farm Workers (@ufw.bsky.social) reposted

Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. Únase en celebrar a la gente que trabajan en los campos para poner comida en nuestras mesas. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay

A photo montage of a farm worker with buckets of potatoes she picked on top of the American flag with the words not everybody gets #laborday off
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Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Even if he is! He's the worst, but there are many more.

1/9/2025, 6:09:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Antifascism (@mrantifascism.com) reposted

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Profile picture Marilyn Munster (@heyfren.bsky.social) reposted

At this point I have to assume the only reason we have guns in this country is for mass shootings, because it definitely isn't for fighting tyranny. Matt Brosseau
1/9/2025, 5:16:05 AM | 683 196 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Without commenting on "religion" I don't think it's a scam at all. We can always accomplish more together than individually. 🤗

1/9/2025, 2:55:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Antifascism (@mrantifascism.com) reposted

Poverty isn’t a moral failure—it’s the product of a broken capitalist system designed to funnel wealth upward. When the top 1% hoard resources while millions struggle, it exposes systemic greed, not personal shortcomings. Blaming individuals distracts from the real injustice.

1/9/2025, 2:46:38 AM | 46 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

I live on the central coast of California and every day, everywhere I go, I see people planting, caring for, harvesting, and packaging the food that ends up on my table. Many of them are my friends and neighbors. It is a privilege to live here.

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Profile picture Justin Jest (@justinjest.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture NPR (@npr.org) reposted

The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras and other countries. Among them are health care workers tending to older and disabled people.

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Profile picture Barbara Boxer (@realbarbaraboxer.bsky.social) reposted

Loading children up to fly them to Guatemala without a hearing to find out if they can be cared for by relatives in USA and whether they will be greatly harmed by the Deportation. These Trump MAGAS sink so low on the morality scale there is no bottom.

1/9/2025, 2:15:39 AM | 567 175 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Who fucking does that?! What a complete piece of shit.

31/8/2025, 2:45:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Henry Carnell (@hencarnell.bsky.social) reposted

"To blame the unnerving prevalence of mass shootings in America on the existence of trans people here isn’t just a dangerously stigmatizing, politically motivated take. It’s also bad math." - @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social

28/8/2025, 9:49:21 PM | 366 112 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

I have a trans son, and I have never and would never cut him off from my life. He's just as much my baby as ever. ♥️

31/8/2025, 4:47:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Right?!

31/8/2025, 4:43:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marilyn Munster (@heyfren.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 3:52:49 AM | 237 44 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Stephen Miller needs a dictionary. He's confused about the meaning of every word in that quote: expert; public health; credibility; scientific organization; scientific method.

30/8/2025, 11:33:45 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social)

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Watsonville #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

30/8/2025, 11:18:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Kind of the opposite really. Stone soup starts with a stone, but each neighbor contributes something to make it yummy. Our problem is that we "neighbors" can't do much under the circumstances; the people who can and should act have apparently never read the story of the good Samaritan.

30/8/2025, 7:54:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social)

$49B to Israel EVERY DAY.

$49 billion to Israel every single day. Why the fuck do my taxes pay for Israeli healthcare and Palestinian genocide? You've been conditioned to think this is normal but it most certainly is not.
30/8/2025, 7:50:18 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Blahblahblahblah...Enough words, DO SOMETHING!!!

30/8/2025, 7:47:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Alt text would be nice. I can't see anything in the small print.

30/8/2025, 7:28:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Glad she is home. Sending prayers and good wishes!

30/8/2025, 4:09:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie Mack (@astrokatie.com) reposted

I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

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Profile picture Isabel Santos (@isabelsantos.bsky.social) reposted

👏🏻🙌👏🏻 The one thing that stops a bad guy with a gun— is a congressman with a spine.

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30/8/2025, 11:14:19 AM | 221 89 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm fine! Everything hurts and I'm dying, but I'm fine!

30/8/2025, 3:59:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 12:01:13 PM | 32 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Isabel Santos (@isabelsantos.bsky.social) reposted

Why not replace the President's Secret Service protection with thoughts and prayers? After all, if it's good enough for our children, it should be good enough for him. It would save the Tax payers a lot of money, and you know how much they LOVE to cut waste…

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30/8/2025, 12:55:18 PM | 94 42 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Uh, yep, pretty scary. 😬

30/8/2025, 3:41:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

"Faith without works is dead."

30/8/2025, 3:17:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin Jest (@justinjest.bsky.social) reposted

😅

30/8/2025, 2:17:55 PM | 19 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "What a terrible day to have eyes."

30/8/2025, 4:44:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

It will take a very long time before we achieve any sense of normalcy, but we're working on it!

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Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.

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Profile picture Mr. Antifascism (@mrantifascism.com) reposted

Bernie: There is no reason why we should have a lower life expectancy than every other major country while spending nearly twice as much per capita on health care. The function of a rational health care system is to provide quality care for ALL, not make insurance and drug companies rich.

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Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

Excellent question.

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, what a nice message ! Now WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT???

30/8/2025, 12:21:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder if the location of black communities can be added to this list of factors. If they were prohibited (by actual law) from owning homes in certain neighborhoods, to me it seems reasonable that those neighborhoods were safer, too.

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Are those tattoos of...his bruise? 

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Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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Profile picture Dad Jokes (@dadsaysjokes.com) reposted

I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE!! (I can and will, I just need to overreact first so I can get back on track).

29/8/2025, 9:58:26 PM | 44 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted

Your daily reminder that most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

29/8/2025, 10:00:03 PM | 581 177 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted

Memphis, Houston, and Kansas City all have more violent crime than DC, but the National Guard isn’t there because they’re in red states. It’s a show of force and, more so, a distraction. Trump wants us talking about anything other than his collapsing health and Jeffrey Epstein.

29/8/2025, 10:30:06 PM | 1944 546 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow, 208 in my state (California) alone!

30/8/2025, 12:04:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social)

Immigration resources Recursos de inmigración

29/8/2025, 11:53:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

*Neil Degrasse Tyson is the source of this quote.

29/8/2025, 11:52:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

"Calm down!" Yeah, that'll work…

29/8/2025, 11:50:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

American here, and I am 100% in agree with you. Our government is out of control and deserves no concession.

29/8/2025, 11:49:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social)

Because he can't stand anything that is decent, natural, or beautiful.

29/8/2025, 11:48:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

🤣🤣🤣 It's easier!

29/8/2025, 11:47:53 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

*misinformation, duh! 🙎🏻‍♀️

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh my goodness, miss information?? No way!!!

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

When I was a parent of young children, my social group was all the employees at my favorite grocery store. Get fellowship where you find it, say I!

29/8/2025, 4:53:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Well yeah, and please note that all those other countries that don't have many shootings DO have people with mental illness who take psychoactive drugs. It's the guns, moron.

29/8/2025, 4:51:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

From now on I'm calling fake "Christians" Xtians. They don't follow the teachings of Christ, they don't need to be called by his name.

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social)

Free, direct e-filing must be preserved! Paying a tax preparer is something not all of us can afford.

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

You are absolutely having an impact! Also it helps to know that I'm not the only one getting scared. ♥️

29/8/2025, 4:36:31 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social)

There is no bottom.

A list of ways Trump has threatened to torture migrants.
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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

There is no bottom.

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Profile picture WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) reposted

This is Bear. He was found on the streets with very little fur and inflamed skin. On top of that, his bladder had herniated, and he needed immediate surgery. Without intervention, his condition would have resulted in fatal complications. You can help him below ❤️‍🩹 15outof10.org/bear-2

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Giving groceries away? Well yeah, the food bank where I do my shopping does give them away for free. The grocery store is more expensive than ever.

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Son of a bitch. Murderous bastard.

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social)

This is what dictators do to the competition: arrange for them to "disappear."

President revokes Kamala Harris's Secret Service protection.
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Profile picture Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 (@hilaryagro.com) reposted

No conversation about crime is useful unless we talk about what causes most city crime: exploitation and poverty. Any intervention that isn't aimed at reducing the working class oppression that leads to poverty (wage slavery, for-profit housing, over-policing etc) will simply not work

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Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

The richest 400 Americans paid a lower average effective tax rate than all other U.S. taxpayers from 2018 to 2020. And thanks to Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill, they’ll keep paying less. Is it any wonder so many think the game is rigged?

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social)

Wow! Over 400 followers in no time at all! I truly value each one of you and I'm so glad you're here. ❤️

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

PS, it's astonishing how realistic the toy is!

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you so much, I really needed that!!!

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

The principles that make us "great": racism, sexism, exploitation of the working class, voter suppression....

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

It's an interesting transition to go from "look at what is happening to other people" to "holy crap, that could happen to me." Praying that you will be safe, but even more praying for courage and peace. PS, I need a screaming goat!

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Profile picture Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) reposted

It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.

NBC News Chicago headline: 5th grader says friend saved him before getting shot in Minneapolis church shooting
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Profile picture Trey Ferguson (@pastortrey05.com) reposted

Good morning, beloved. Thoughts and prayers without conviction and action go straight to God’s spam folder. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

Gee, how on earth did *that* happen?

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Profile picture Isabel Santos (@isabelsantos.bsky.social) reposted

"We have seen this play out over and over again. There is a shooting, then come the thoughts and prayers... It's the guns. It's always been the guns."

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

I watched it too and sat here laughing my head off the whole time.

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Profile picture Katie B ❌ (@katiebbsky.bsky.social) reply parent

😍😍😍

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