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Tomi

@therealtomirb.bsky.social

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Mom. Wife, happily married. No DM’s. Preschool teacher. Cat herder. Love to read, crochet, felt, dad jokes, puns, D&D, board games, my family genealogy.

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · Nov 7

My cats Jasper and Munchkin. Hi!

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 10h

My college kid is involved with a student organization in support of Palestine. They organize on campus, lobby for the CSU’s to divest-see my posts on hunger strikes, & challenged the time/place/manner rules. They’re selling totes to support their campus activities. www.customink.com/fundraising/...

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 10h

Is colonial fashion a thing now?

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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phyllisjsilver @phyllisjsilver.bsky.social · 1d

@seizeday.bsky.social This is beautiful. I get up & promise to make at least 3 strangers smile…especially the ones who look like they need it.
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I Should’ve Been a Cowgirl @seizeday.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning everyone!

"HAPPINESS SHARED IS
HAPPINESS DOUBLED."
-Swedish Proverb

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 1d

Sharing more joy.. there is a gaggle of turkeys that roam my neighborhood. They stopped traffic yesterday morning and I had to catch a video of this dancing guy. I apologize but I have no video editing skills whatsoever. I’ve tried and tried and it’s not working. Volume down 😂 imagine doo doo doo

Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny the things that bring joy. I stopped at Trader Joe’s this morning for a few things and when I checked out, the total was $28.82. the checker said oh look you got a palindrome! I said yeah! I feel like I won a prize. Guess who got a sucker as a prize and now I have the biggest smile.

Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 4d

It was the best time!

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The Radical Left Lunatic 🛩️🇺🇸🦅🇺🇦🫘🌮 @wokeaflunatic.bsky.social · 5d

America. If you’re not at the No Kings Protest on October 18th then you need to do something else to participate. Donate to MoveOn or ActBlue. We need all Americans to be all in.

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 5d

😂 good thing Paula didn’t travel with all her cats.

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Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 5d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 5d

What a great memory!!! I’d be proud too ❤️

Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 5d

He was so friendly and kind.

Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 5d

It was soooooo cool. Great end to a fab vacation

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 5d

though his first show yesterday had some technical issues too, I was able to let him know Wait Wait did as well and welcome to the industry!!! 4/fin

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 5d

Was the soundtrack to our early parenting days. Many a road trip and adventure in the early aughts was had to the sounds of those shows. Now my eldest is in college and had his first radio show yesterday on his college station. A Poli Sci major, he was excited for us that we got to go. And even 3

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 5d

We were so excited and I fangirled, that we got tickets before we even left the airport once we landed. It was a wonderful funny show. Much needed these days. @petersagal.bsky.social was spectacular as usual and kept us moving through some tech issues. WWDTM, Car talk, & Prairie Home Companion 2

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 5d

Story time-we went to Hawaii this week to celebrate my husband’s 50th birthday. My husband saw a man on the flight wearing an NPR shirt and stattted chatting with him & learned that an episode of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me was being recorded or that he was talking to @benevolentoverlord.bsky.social! 1

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 5d

So excited to be in the audience for Wait Wait don’t Tell Me! In Honolulu @petersagal.bsky.social

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 7d

Missouri Attorney General Subpoenas Planned Parenthood for Records of Abortion Patients

Missouri's attorney general has subpoenaed Planned Parenthood in an effort to obtain medical and other confidential records of abortion patients. Planned Parenthood Great Plains, Planned Parenthood Great Rivers and the ACLU of Missouri have said in response, “Politicians have no place in…

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Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 8d

Sooooo Marjorie three toes is pulling her head out of her ass or more performative bullshit?

Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 9d

Life does not suck right now. Aloha

Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 14d

Rainbow over Gilroy and Hollister. Photo doesn’t show up but it completes the art to the other side. Really needed to see this Rainbow today.

Tomi @therealtomirb.bsky.social · 14d

Oh did someone say Epstein files?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."