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RogueArtistJen

@rogueartistjen.bsky.social

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Create art, love everyday, drink lots of water, swear like a sailor, pump some iron, eat your fruits & veggies, take chances. Supergirl collector. Fight the EMPIRE. Be your own hero. Senior Exhibits Coordinator & Artist. 🇺🇦 🚫AI🎨

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RogueArtistJen @rogueartistjen.bsky.social · Mar 12

You wanna know how the US ended up here? 54% of Americans cannot read beyond a 6th grade level. 21%? Completely illiterate.
Studies show that readers have higher empathy, better social ability, have better perspective, and a clearer understanding of human nature.

Literacy Statistics 2024- 2025 (Where we are now)

The capacity to read and write, commonly known as literacy, stands out as a pivotal determinant in shaping an individual's career trajectory. Individuals with literacy skills have access to a broad sp...

www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com

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RogueArtistJen @rogueartistjen.bsky.social · 17h

Dear Dems, learn how to negotiate. Ask for more each time. Ask for things you know your states & counties need. Every. Single. Session that they refuse to open. Put more things forward. PUSH it. NOW is the time. #shutdown

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 1d

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. - Bryan Stevenson

Pic of the day

#photography

Loutro Beach on the island of Crete. A small boat with a man in it hovers on top of turquoise water. In the distance, brilliant white stores and homes line the cove. There are no roads to get here. Boat is everything.

#greece
#travel
#sea
#holiday
#crete

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20h

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Betty💪 @bettyhumpter25.bsky.social · 20h

Ah, States’ rights are so 1776

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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GenXer-71 @genxer-71.bsky.social · 1d

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Attorney Ben Crump @attorneybencrump.bsky.social · 2d

⚠️GRAPHIC CONTENT⚠️

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrested a Black mother outside her child’s school after an officer confronted her about leaving her car illegally parked and unattended. This level of force on an unarmed woman in a school pick-up line is outrageous!

🎥: Smiley Charles/Facebook

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Spam E. McSpam @spamemcspam.bsky.social · 1d

Cutting The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and TRIO. There’s a deep, disgusting part of hell for Linda McMahon and anyone else that’s part of this or supports it.

Fuck this country.

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RogueArtistJen @rogueartistjen.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you.

RogueArtistJen @rogueartistjen.bsky.social · 1d

THIS

hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about the debate of whether the Bible does or doesn’t condone slavery is that it kinda doesn’t matter.

Ultimately, if you need an invisible deity to tell you that the buying, selling, or ownership of other humans is wrong, you have much bigger fish to fry than the errancy of the Bible.

RogueArtistJen @rogueartistjen.bsky.social · 1d

Buscuits. Buttered warm biscuits. Put it inside. Enjoy.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Mother and daughter help man escape from ICE

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RogueArtistJen @rogueartistjen.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, yeah, fuck Keira Knightly. Wow. #translivesmatter

RogueArtistJen @rogueartistjen.bsky.social · 1d

I just found half a toad in the yard & it was still alive & goddammit I love toads & I had to try & euthanize it & I hope I did it right & I can't stop crying. Fuck everything right now. 😭

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

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Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Garcia: It’s really shocking for him to essentially lean into this possibility of a pardon. And we know why that’s the case, right? He wants to control what she says. He wants her—someone who has a ton of information on what actually happened—to perhaps… omit memories she might have of the president

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 1d

Alabama was the first state to declare Christmas a holiday in 1836. The idea caught on and grew in popularity over several decades and President Grant signed it into Federal Law decades later in 1870.