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Aunt Eef

@aunteef.bsky.social

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Living in the Midwest in a small blue dot in a very red state. Supporter of democracy and TeamPete. Interested in science, nature, bloomscrolling, and politics. Also, cats. Not actually childless but my wonderful children are grown. she/her. No dms please.

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Aunt Eef @aunteef.bsky.social · Jan 31

I don't expect this to get a lot of traction, but:

Please add alt text, it's not hard & it's kind of fun.

Also, please credit artists in a post.

I may like an un-alt or uncredited post, but won't likely repost unless those things are included.

Artists deserve credit, and alt text is helpful. Thx

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 5h

“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent.

I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.

Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.

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Alyssa Milano @alyssamilano.bsky.social · 2h

My husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and…

I was purged from the voting roll.

PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

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@cmerfy Lifelong Democrat @cmerfy.bsky.social · 2h

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RIP, Susan, & thank you for more than I can express 💐

#OV1

www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Susan Stamberg, pioneering broadcaster at NPR, dies at 87

As a host of “All Things Considered,” she was the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program in the United States.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Aunt Eef @aunteef.bsky.social · 2h

BINGO 👇

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Women across the US are facing criminal charges for miscarrying—this is what "fetal personhood" looks like.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Mayhem RN @mayhem1994.bsky.social · Aug 24

NJ woman yells at ICE while they arrest a man, warns the whole neighborhood, and keeps berating the officers while asserting her rights

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 11h

A story in three parts

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Aunt Eef @aunteef.bsky.social · 7h

Gosh, what could have happened 🤔🤷

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 8h

My husband of 5 years bought me £30 Lego for my birthday this year. I wouldn't mind so much, but he also bought himself £150 Lego the same day. Unfortunately he's not been able to finish his AT - ST walker as some of the pieces appear to have mysteriously gone missing. Shame.

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 11h

This week’s comic now up on @dailykos.com
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Billy Dare’s adventure in a strange and brutal land
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www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Cartoon: Tom the Dancing Bug's Billy Dare, Boy Adventurer, finds himself in a strange country

Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world: JOIN THE INNER HIVE ! Coming soon! Volumes 1 and 2 of The Complete ....

www.dailykos.com

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BeingHelpish 💙 🇺🇦 @beinghelpish.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t think pride is a bad thing.

Pride and shame are important parts of regulating our behavior — and getting us to do what’s right.

If you’re going to the No Kings rally this weekend, I’m proud of you, and you should be too.

A graphic that has a blue on blue background with the words no kings repeating.

On the left is the crown with an X through it. Underneath that it says no kings.

On the right is a picture of a happy frog, and under that it says only frogs.

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Aunt Eef @aunteef.bsky.social · 12h

That is what I want to know. How is he spending all this money on bailing out Argentina, building a ballroom, etc, without any approval from Congress or indication of where the 💰 is coming from? It's enraging!!

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 3d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 1d

“Operation Inflation” is offering free inflatable costumes to Portland ICE protesters.

Bravo and Brava!👩🏻‍🍳💋

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Aunt Eef @aunteef.bsky.social · 1d

holy bajoly some of these are 😳

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days

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Aunt Eef @aunteef.bsky.social · 1d

The worst are the ones who have multiple meds (sorry), picking up for 3 different family members, don't have the right paperwork, can't get their credit card to work...

I'm 70 with RA and I promise you if I don't hot foot it to the counter ahead of them, I will wind up behind them every time 🏃‍♀️ 🙄😂

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Aunt Eef @aunteef.bsky.social · 1d

Came here to say that and I have almost a decade on you lol 🤣

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GAK [MBA/MA] 🇦🇺🇺🇸 @wanderingrocket.bsky.social · 2d

You're being charged with evading arrest because we didn't have anything else to justify the arrest.

So let me get this straight. They have nothing to arrest you for. You've committed no arrestable crimes, so the act of running away from unidentified masked kidnappers IS the crime? Really?

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1d

Winter babbys. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a white man in winter clothing, sitting outside in a snowy park or boardwalk or something. Under each arm he’s holding a beautiful white medium haired cat.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 1d

Republicans claim we can't afford Social Security and Medicare.

They're giving a $40,000,000,000 bailout to Argentina.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2d

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name
She even had her U.S. passport on her
"ICE determined she was an undocumented immigrant because she didn’t “look like” a Greeley. Greeley, who was born in Illinois, is Latina and adopted"
😡😡😡😡😡
newrepublic.com/post/201745/...

ICE is not protecting us
ICE is threatening us
Abolish ICE

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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