#miniposts — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #miniposts, aggregated by home.social.
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Slava Ukraini!
This font might work for a quilting project inspired by recent events.
Gathering some fabric from my stash and some new fabric next.www.fontspace.com/sunflowers-font-f50996
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Living On Blue Island In Lake Illinois
A local bike riding friend remarked today that he feels like he’s living on a blue island. I made sure he sees this.
”JB Pritzker trolled the president on Friday by claiming he planned to rename Lake Michigan as Lake Illinois and annex Green Bay.”
Link: Illinois Gov. Ridicules Trump's 'Gulf Of America' Proposal With 1 Of His Ownhttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2025/02/08/living-on-blue-island-in-lake-illinois/
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Dems Get Into Good Trouble
The unhinged part is how the Speaker met with Bessent and the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee earlier, which supposedly has the power to request anyone’s tax returns, although Trump Turd Reich 1.0 somehow dodged that.
Link:'Aggressive and frankly unhinged': Witness shocked as Dems barge into speaker's officehttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2025/02/05/dems-get-into-good-trouble/
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MAKE: Crochet Emotional Support Dumpster Fire
Can I re-learn how to crochet and make this absolute unit from 2020? The last time I crocheted something, it was 1972.
”Let’s knock out 2020 with THE BEST CROCHET PROJECT OF THE YEAR!!! It’s 100% Soft’s Dumpster Fire!!! Truck asked if I wanted to translate his iconic and super popular Dumpster Fire…”
Lihttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2025/01/23/make-crochet-emotional-support-dumpster-fire/
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Trump Needs Public Cooperation to Enact a Fascist Vision. Here’s How We Refuse.
Do what you can to make community connections, support good causes, and refuse to comply with unjust “authority.”
”Our resistance to fascistic policies must be grounded in our sense of justice, rather than arguments about what’s legal
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Dumwall Jingo Tinyfist will open the Strategic Nickname Reserve on Day One
Daily Show host Desi Lydic mocks DJT, as mockery is his kryptonite.
"In the midst of chaos," the comedian/actress commented, "Donald Trump is taking action by opening up the strategic nickname reserve."
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Protect The Weak, Take The Fifth, StandTogether
Interesting advice, but don’t lie to law enforcement. We still have the right to remain silent, and the moral duty to shield the vulnerable. The people who do the hardest jobs in the US deserve our support.
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”Choose as your New Year’s mantra that great civic-minded slogan: ‘If you saw something, no you didn’t’”
Link: Hhttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2025/01/03/protect-the-weak-take-the-fifth-standtogether/
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‘Elmo Skum goes full-bore Gandalf
Both Trump and Skum posted in the wee hours to order GOP sycophants to shut down government.
Skum Xitted: “This should not pass.”
”President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown…”
Link: Government funding plan collapses as Trump makes new demandshttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/12/18/elmo-skum-goes-full-bore-gandalf/
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#ProPublica form letter to health insurance providers via #Bluesky h/t (@fizbin.bsky.social)
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
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Will Seb #4banger Gorka Ever Fight That Duel?
Back from obscurity, let’s revisit the ridiculousness of Seb Gorka.
Rick Wilson popularized that nickname, wonder if he’d like to act as second?Quote: Seb Gorka challenged me to a fight over email and I accepted, only to find out he's "all mouth and no trousers."
Link: Seb Gorka Just Challenged Me to a Fight Ovhttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/11/23/will-seb-4banger-gorka-ever-fight-that-duel/
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‘Out here running toilet scams’: Spectators dump on Trump’s newest administration pick
Literally a poop emoji nomination. When we shit-can our link to NATO, this guy will be the one to flush our allies.
Link: 'Out here running toilet scams': Spectators dump on Trump's newest administration pick
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WaPo Gift Link: 10 Books To Read
I need entertainment that doesn’t make me want to repeat the mantra of the current era: “don’t panic.”
https://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/11/20/wapo-gift-link-10-books-to-read/
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F’thaunck You, ‘Elno Skum
It’s possible we have ‘Elno to thank for the depressed (and depressing) turnout of Democratic voters for Harris. Or we wish him a hearty FOAD.
Link: Bait-and-switch ad campaign carefully planned to trigger potential Harris voters: studyhttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/11/17/fthaunck-you-elno-skum/
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The News Is Awful, So I’m Making #Sourdough Bread
Quote: The Best Sourdough Sandwich Bread - absolute crowd favorite! How to simply make homemade Soft Sourdough Sandwich Bread
Link: Soft Sourdough Sandwich Bread - Lion's Breadhttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/11/14/the-news-is-awful-so-im-making-sourdough-bread/
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Well Played, Onion. Well Done, Sandy Hook Families
Some forgettable guy’s ass(ets) belong to The Onion and the Sandy Hook families he harassed. Now that’s justice.
The satirical news company plans to shutter Jones’ Infowars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge ofhttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/11/14/well-played-onion-well-done-sandy-hook-families/
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The Guardian Archives Its Xitter Account
Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian
Good. People and organizations of good will should at least archive and go inactive, if not outright leave. News orgs have reason to stay and at least park their accounts, so they’re not hijacked by thttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/11/13/the-guardian-archives-its-xitter-account/
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Northern CA Church In Vote Gathering Scheme
The real voter fraud was quietly taking place at churches like this. And they think it’s their God-given right to take over school boards, too.
www.sfgate.com/northcoast/article/norcal-church-ballot-collection-tehama-19901332.phphttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/11/09/northern-ca-church-in-vote-gathering-scheme/
#HotOffThePresses #MiniPosts #PoliticsSchmolitics #TheocracyWatch
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Hopeful and Helpful Affirmations by Robert Hubble
Read the full post to get the best effect. We left it all on the field. ALT: The Western Veil Nebula lies like a wrinkled silk scarf on deep soft velvet. We are starstuff.
”So, as you anxiously wait for election returns, reflect on the fact you have the great fortune to be here in this moment because milli
https://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/11/04/hopeful-and-helpful-affirmations-by-robert-hubble/
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Epstein Tapes SURE WOULD HAVE BEEN USEFUL EARLIER, MICHAEL WOLFF
Gee, if we had these tapes in 2017 Trump might not have won so many primaries or gotten the GOP nomination. Thanks a whole lot, Michael Wolff. Enjoy your book profits.
Recordings from 2017 reveal Epstein talking for some ‘100 hours’ about the ex-president, journalist Michael Wolff says
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How the road to the White House might lead through … Canada?
I know Laffy ( @GottaLaff ) has voted, at least - but this ground game sounds great!
In a squeaker of an election, the 700,000 eligible US voters up north could determine who the next US president is
Link: How the road to the White House might lead through … Canada?https://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/11/01/how-the-road-to-the-white-house-might-lead-through-canada/
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Cartoon: The last firewall (Alt Text is on blog link)
Click link to dKos to follow cartoonist Jen Sorensen. Her details are masterful.
Link: Cartoon: The last firewallhttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/10/30/cartoon-the-last-firewall-alt-text-is-on-blog-link/
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‘Very Hitlerian’: Protesters cause MAGA outrage at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally – Raw Story
The part about outrage was when one lone protestor flipped the bird and yelled "F- Trump!" at the MAGA devotees waiting to enter the place of worship. They erupted in fury, and one guy yelled "Get deported." So t
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Pleasant Surprise: Visiting MTG’s District
There are nice, thoughtful, diverse people who live in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district. A brown-skinned immigrant with a foreign accent talked to them about everything except politics and was rewarded with interesting conversations. He was initially apprehensive, but found only friendly locals.
It sounds like someone needs thttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/10/24/pleasant-surprise-visiting-mtgs-district/
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The far-right megadonor pouring over $10m into the US election to defeat ‘the woke regime’
Records show Thomas Klingenstein is at the forefront of donors pushing polarizing politics in the Republican party
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Cheetoh-Stained Blogger Logs In To Pontificate, Updates Preferences to Ritz Crackers
It’s Saturday, I’m listening to a “clip show” retrospective version of “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” and I’m trying to exercise my atrophied blogging muscles.
I used to be a prolific long-form blogger, until Twitter, real Twitter, remodeled my brain to think in 24 -
#VoteHope North Carolina sets record for first day of voting with more than 350,000 ballots
This gives me hope. People are literally crawling over broken glass, and the mess left by Helene, to vote in North Carolina.
“Haven’t stood in a line like this to vote since Obama 2008,” blogger Tom Sullivan posted on X, photographing dozens lin
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Analysis | When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP
The infection could be called the Helsinki Virus, but it probably started long before that.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is the latest to point out the problem in his party.
…In an interview with Puck News’s Julia Ioffe, Rep. Micha
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My sewing room serves multiple functions - guest room, computer room, exercise room, extra TV room... and it needs decluttering and reorganizing to make those functions work.
#DeclutterChallenge2024
youtu.be/Y_XxkKGDe0o
And my multipurpose room was full of Xmess stuff, badly arranged furniture, and clutter.
Day 1 was Garbage Day. Days 2-3 were for clearing out magazhttps://www.blogula-rasa.com/2024/01/01/its-declutterchallenge2024/
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No Fair Remembering Stuff: The Brooks Brothers Riot
Excellent episode by @driftglass and @bluegal at #ProfessionalLeftPodcast
https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2023/08/ep-737-no-fair-remembering-stuff.html?m=1
https://www.blogula-rasa.com/2023/08/23/no-fair-remembering-stuff-the-brooks-brothers-riot/