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Retired software thingy. An explorer without an obsession, so I’m an inch deep, but a mile wide. And a voice to match. No Republican is fit to hold public office.

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kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · Mar 11

I posted elsewhere on 6/22/18
Ah, hon, it's "equality politics", as in everyone would like to be treated equally, not redlined or over charged for being black, underpaid and overcharged for being female, unmarried for being gay, or being asked to show papers for being brown. Get with reality, dear.

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kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 20m

From an excellent article on antisemitism by Ian Buruma in @newyorker.com 9/29/25, including Mazower’s new book, “On Antisemitism.”
Writing of the famous Dreyfus treason case in France in 1871, Buruma writes about the two sides. Don’t the 6 Catholic #SupremeCult members sound familiar here?

The anti-Dreyfusards were mostly Roman Catholic reactionaries who despised everything the modern state rep-resented. They hated liberals, leftists, cosmopolitans, and Jews, though not necessarily in that order.

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kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 4h

“Transactional” leadership methods is more accurately called ‘kleptocratic’. The players in this Israel-Hamas deal are all lining their own pockets. Same method in Argentina, Venezuela, Hungary and, of course, Russia.
This is why #Drumpf hates legitimately elected leaders.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12h

Talk about indoctrination…

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kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 5h

OW!!!
(Thanks you, though)

kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 5h

Go, Episcopalians!!

Quotes Exodus 8:2-6, God visiting a plague of frogs on ‘all your officials’

kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 5h

Heck, it’s still two weeks til Halloween!!!

kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 5h

I yearn for the days. Michael Lewis’ great new book “Who Is Government?”, in chap 6, which is about the person running the program of digitizing the National Archives. (Each chap is a diff person.)
Here, Lewis is quoting famed 60s Senator Mike Mansfield, quoting Lao Tzu:

“A leader is best when the people hardly know he exists. After his work is done, the people will say, “We did that ourselves.”

kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 5h

See also: #REAGAN and the Ayatollah: I’ll sell you TOW missiles if you’ll keep the hostages til after the election. Can’t let Carter win.
LATER, after Reagan won: Could you keep them another 3 months, til I’m inaugurated? Wouldn’t want that peanut farmer to get any credit for their release.

kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 6h

And #Eric will make a buck off the body bags for the use of the #TrumpTrailers

kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 6h

And this is why we need to RETIRE “JIM CROW” and replace it with the Chief JustUs’s name:
“JOHN CROW”, the black color coming from his robes.
Place the damned blame where it belongs.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 7h

This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.

Everything else is noise and bluster.

This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 23h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

This is what happens when your country is run by incompetent knuckleheads.

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kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 7h

How can you have a camel-toe there?

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

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kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 7h

Then hang the f’ing plaque that Congress had made to THANK the Capitol Police for protecting Congress-critters from being killed by 1500+ raving America-haters on Jan6.

#SqueakerJohnson is a small coward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 21h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 7h

Show-off…🥂

kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 7h

So cool.

Dr. Earhart Sampson, PhD🌎 @earhart.bsky.social · 7h

www.earth.com/news/two-son...

Bird not seen in 20 years is rediscovered using an audio recorder

In India, an acoustic recording from August 24, 2025 confirms that the nocturnal bird called 'Jerdon's courser' is not extinct.

www.earth.com

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kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 7h

#Republicans believe in #Anti-Fa.
They also believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and #Drumpf’s ability to run a business.

kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 9h

How many racists and anti-semites are #Republicans?

All of them…

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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kelleywillis.bsky.social @kelleywillis.bsky.social · 1d

Really
Not
Competent.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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