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Maureen Yost-Zahn

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Fantasy writer by night, cat herder 24/7, will jump out of a moving car to pet your dog | 💍 | NJ➡️PNW | VP22 / Viable Paradise 2018 I’m also on the others apps as [@]beaniezee

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22h

Powerful letter from a non-verbal autistic person. Give it two minutes of your night and feel your heart expand.

El Sargento García @elsargentogarcia.bsky.social · 1d

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To the Editor:
I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.
I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities.
There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.
For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.
Jason Jacoby Lee
New York

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a good reminder that the elites of both parties collapsed and capitulated with fascism selling us all out but the average population has not.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Maureen Yost-Zahn @beaniezee.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sitting like this right now

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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 1d

We went to No Kings looking for paid protestors. What we found will shock you.

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🏳️‍🌈 Philly Proud. Pro choice. Anti-Fascism. No DMs please. @totophilly1963.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings Philly. ❤️🤍💙

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

NGL, watching three grown men wrestle a dick is highly entertaining to me.

I hope that lady sues them for violating her civil rights.

thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) @pftlocal3.bsky.social · 1d

Keep it cute, Philly! 😉🥨🦅 #NoKings

People dancing in inflatable character costumes including the Stay Puft marshmallow at the No Kings march in Philly

People dancing and chanting at the start of the No Kings march in Philly

People dancing and chanting at the start of the No Kings march in Philly. A marcher waves a PFT flag.

A marcher holds up a sign that reads, Free speech is not just speech that you agree with

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Janneken @janneken.org · 1d

No Kings, Go Birds, Fuck Ice, Free Palestine. #nokings Philly

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 1d

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

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John Robinson @hannibalv.bsky.social · 1d

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Large banner held by two people. Text of banner is "RESPECT MY TRANS HOMIES OR I'M GONNA IDENTIFY AS A FUCKING PROBLEM". "Respect my trans homies" is painted in the colors of the trans flag; the rest of the text is black. The banner is painted on brown cardboard.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 1d

Good.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Jul 31

"Customer: I'd like to buy a letter S.

Scribe: A normal S or a bizarre eel-like creature with a bird's head chasing after a seagull?

Customer: Hmmm. Not sure I'm totally sold. Could you make it female?

Scribe: Buddy, you're not going to believe this..."

[image of a Medieval musical manuscript featuring a bizarre eel-like creature with a bird's head chasing after a seagull, with her titties out.]

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Me, a white femme woman, holding a pink sign that says WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE, at the No Kings protest.

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Frettie Fingers @frettie.bsky.social · 1d

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

No evidence.

No riots.

Ted Cruz is deeply damaged, dishonest trash.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

DC J6: 1.500 arrests
DC No Kings: zero

Tell me again which side is violent?

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Kim Bellware @bellwak.bsky.social · 1d

Found the paid protester

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

I loved seeing an "Empty Is the Head That Wears the Crown" sign today at No Kings.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 1d

illustration showing an 18th century guillotine with a banner reading "no kings no tyrants"

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 1d

here’s a current chopper view of the chicago protests. the crowd moved north from grant park up michigan avenue; chicago pd has blocked the bridge across the river to trump tower and are routing everyone west down wacker drive

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Piglet @piglet.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings

TURN OFF FACE ID & TOUCHID
Your face and fingers are not protected by the Fifth Amendment
YOUR PASSCODE IS.

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