Central Floridian passionate about books, social justice, and knitting. “I’m not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I’m saying it helps.” ~ Walter Mosley
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“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
“And what did you do during your summer vacation, Stephen?”
Not familiar with Graff as an author, but I recognize him from TV. 🤪
Yes—I’ve read a few by Radden Keefe. “Rogues” and “Say Nothing” also very good. Think my favorites in the non-fiction category are Michael Lewis, Isabel Wilkerson, and Lawrence Wright.
Tanenhaus’ book on Whittaker Chambers was good, too.
Interesting. I have the Reagan book by Max Boot in my queue, but at 880 pgs, I keep skipping it. Reading Emily Dickinson’s Letters in the smallest font I’ve ever seen in a book, 500 pages, and because it’s ED there’s little to no punctuation!!! Thankfully, no one is waiting for me to finish.
But I finish them!
Currently saving $28 by reading “Question 7” from Richard Flanagan, checked out from Orange County Library System. ✌️💙📚
Who the fuck cares. Can you get me a Covid booster? I don’t meet the new criteria, but I don’t want to die.
iQ47 has always been cruel and heartless. This is not due to his age and diminished capacity.
THAT was what did it?!?!
I’ll send you some colored chalk. They wash it off, we draw it back. Every time they turn around. It’s our liberty pole.
That tweet deserves to be framed and hung in a place of honor.
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
All those traumatized children grow up to hate, and vote that way. 🧐
“Nationally, corporal punishment remains legal in 17 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming.”
I actually think this is an improvement—at least we’re now requiring parental permission. Mind you, I find this practice abhorrent, but from the administration that build a concentration camp in the Everglades, this policy seems a step forward.
Seriously @50501movement.bsky.social instead of meeting at Orlando City Hall, we need to show up each time with our chalk at the #PulseMonument
The FBI must think the #EpsteinFiles are on John Bolton’s desk. 🧐
Every. Damned. Day.
Maybe Bolton has the Epstein files on HIS desk!!! 💡
I think Bolton must have the Epstein files on HIS desk!
I stand with Texas Representative Nicole Collier. This 12-year-old kid is spitting knowledge 💥
Free #NicoleCollier
92%
“For I was unhoused but you voted for politicians who funded ICE to displace me.”
Quiznos? Cosi? Subway? Jimmy John's? Jersey Mike's? Any sub shop I visit from this day forward will be judged not only on the taste & value of its sandwiches, but their weight, velocity, & stability of their wrapping.
I remember throwing a book across the room after the author had the family go dress shopping clear across the state. There are these things called maps …
A tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying NOTHING!
Life … is tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. No one signifies what’s happening here in the US better than Shakespeare.
Waiting for class numbers to come in … how many children missing because their parents are afraid to send them to school?
You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)? Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...
At least now we know who bought out Joann’s
I just finished “Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch. 👀
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
ye are many they are few
Where are you? I need to move … Ground beef $9.99 Dozen eggs $11.49 Property insurance rates highest in the nation Heat dome going on week 4 Governor threatening county commissioners with removal who vote against his dick-tates #Florida. It used to be nice here. 😢
love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes
This has my vote
Editorial: "Let’s get one thing straight; Last week’s threat by Florida AG James Uthmeier to suspend all 7 members of Orange County Commission if they didn’t sign off on county jail personnel to transport people being held on immigration detainers was outrageously out of line.." shorturl.at/wI7hx
shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you
rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number
Mayor Jerry Demings — file a lawsuit.
Be Brave, Orange County! File a lawsuit! Don’t let the bullies win. Tell the feds to stay in their lane, and get out of ours. Stop 287g transport. #BeBraveWithUs
Almost makes me want to get a cat.
ICE GOONS draw guns on humanitarian aid workers
Finished the La La Lilacs Shawl (pattern by Alina Appasava) yesterday. #showmeyourknits
I’ll scroll past cat pics all day long, but give me a knitted beanie and I’m checking out the cable detailing (nice!) and off to Ravelry to find the pattern. ✌️💙🧶
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 Listen for less than 3 minutes...
When my son was in preschool, he and his carpool mates add “PT Cruiser, you’re no loser” to their car spotting game. (And as I’m typing this, I’m sure a parent thoughtfully corrected “a loser” to “no loser”, but it wasn’t me!)
Covering for a sexual predator while detaining anyone who is not white is the new America. Time for white people to rise 🆙. See #’s 18 and 20:
Please. No. We have enough assholes here. Y’all quit sending us your rejects. 🤦♀️
Doubt he’s “ok”. He’s alive. Now, he has a lifetime to work towards feeling “ok”.
A Chicago Dog, of course. 🌭
The vote was 211 to 210.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/07/15/o...
It was a win today!!!!! So many amazing people showed up today at the OC County Board of commissioners. We asked the commissioners to be brave with us. They voted UNANIMOUSLY to get rid of the ice Collaboration in the IGSA Contract. Thank you #50501 #protest #bebrave #vote #orlando #florida #tuesday
Power to the Peaceful 🕊️ #resist #peacefulprotests #nonviolence
I’d suggest reading Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem”. Being a cog in the wheel of the Nazi machine didn’t end well for Adolf Eichmann. (I’ve been recommending this to Rick Scott’s team, too.) Trump won’t pay for his crimes, but the MFers carrying this shit out will, absolutely.
The white Christians saying and doing nothing while our government wages war on brown-skinned people make me sick.
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
They are! (autocorrect grammar annoyances 🙄)
Or their in Canada
Doesn’t help with mudslides, which is what scared me about Asheville area.
Having been in Asheville last year during Helene, I’m not sure where of send campers. You almost need a geological survey first.
Yeah. I had same need to highlight. Incautious. Words.
I’m reading ReVisions: Seeing Torah Through A Feminist Lens Brilliant.
May you each find your own reason to resist, but do resist. (4/4)
I’ve been asked why I am standing up. I'm a boomer named Karen. If I cannot, no one can. But in truth, it's because I fear God more than I fear Trump. “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.” ~ Exodus 22:21 (3/4)
cutting off their food supply, denying them healthcare and every other basic human right. Trump is our unnamed Pharaoh of today. Second, that the midwives (who ARE named) fear God more than they fear Pharaoh. (2/4)
I'm reading this morning in Exodus about the Egyptian Pharaoh who felt so threatened by the immigrant Israelites that he told the midwives to kill all the baby boys. Two things stand out—first—how similar this is to what we are doing to our own immigrants, by caging them with alligators (1/4)
This is REPUBLICAN Senator Tillis (NC) who today declared he is not running again & then took to the floor tonight to tell the TRUTH about this dangerous budget bill - how it is going to hurt people & further erode our democratic principles. Call your Senators - tell them to show the same courage.
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
Please. I live in Florida. We really don’t need any more craziness here. We have enough, thanks.
The highest court in our land has determined the government can deport human beings to countries not their own and without any legal review -- until at least such time as a court rules this unconstitutional. And, oh, the matter will be litigated for years. Welcome to the American gulag. It's here.
I don’t believe a single goddamn thing coming out of this administration. This is absolute gaslighting madness. It’s as if we’re watching toddlers run through the White House screaming and smearing Gogurt into the carpet and the entire world has to pretend it’s the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
I can’t find cottage cheese. Had to go to 3 stores. Toilet paper shelves mostly bare, like early 2020-bare. So, yeah, I’m not sure if the prices have gone up ‘cause I’m too busy just trying to buy things.
100 days. 💔
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
She was co-chair of Clinton’s campaign in ‘08, and then, replaced Tim Kaine as chair of the DNC in ‘11. She was also an extremely responsive legislator when I dipped my toe into activism at the state level in ‘04. "To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making."
It’s called the SUDEM bill, sponsored by Reps. Frost, Wasserman-Schultz, and Espalliat.
Paying ATTENTION, yet?! 😎✨
Explain tariffs to me. I can’t find cottage cheese and toilet paper. WTH? Does the US import these items???
@kathylovesdogs.bsky.social 💙
I met Jaclyn Smith at a Texas emu farm on my honeymoon 35 years ago. That’s it. That’s my entire claim to fame.
First time I’ve laughed in 12 hours. Thank you.
I hope everyone is asking their Senators about the FBI detaining one of their own. Hey, Senator Rick Scott and Senator Ashley Moody, y’all okay with this? (Of course, our lovely Florida senators aren’t on Bluesky, because … 🤦♀️)
The lack of total outrage at the indictment of Congresswoman McIvey is truly frightening. Hakeem Jeffries ought to be causing high holy hell over this. She is indicted because she is Black. Half of the GOP caucus engaged in sedition and Garland felt arresting a member of congress went too far.
Nine years ago today, 49 beautiful people went to celebrate Pride at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando and never came home. They were killed in a hate-fueled attack against LGBTQ+ and Latino communities. 53 others were injured and a city changed forever.
I’m shocked. Trump involved with MS-13? Maybe that tattooed hand was his.
This escalation came from the President of the United States.
In the next civil war, "the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." - Ulysses S. Grant, 1875
The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law. This 147-year-old law embodies an American tradition that sees military interference in civilian affairs as a threat to both Democracy and Personal Liberty.
This!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
When President Johnson activated the Nat'l Guard in Alabama in 1965 over Gov. Wallace's objection he did it to protect protesters advocating for voting rights for Black people who had previously met violence at the hands of state troopers. Very different situation.
Inconceivable!
