Abby Norman
@abbynormansays.bsky.social
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Friendly neighborhood pastor/bartender. Just trying to put the pub in public theology.
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This is so cool!
Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

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I feel that some of you need regular reminders of how unpopular this man is. And frankly I see him getting even more so as the economy worsens. Again, this doesn't mean that he will give up any power but it does mean that WE HAVE POWER TOO.
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Let’s help Charlotte!
Bedtime Update: I'm still stalled at needing $840 by the end of the day today (10/17) in order to get caught up on my rent payments and avoid being homeless for a third time. I appreciate all the support today! #MutualAidRequest
Two things.... we are saving God is so idolatrous! Holy moly and does this man know what happens to things of God that die....no one tell him. Let's make resurrection a surprise!
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
Has anyone asked the current version of MGT what happened on January 6?
I just called in a neglected report on a kid i have come to love dearly. Please pray with me she is safe and that the state will let her stay with us not a group home.
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They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.
Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."
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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
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I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
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Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat
Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."
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Not one of these Instagram advertisers donates any of its proceeds to the cause it claims to support
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I am (unfortunately) an accidental expert on eugenics, and let me just say with my full throat: if we eliminated every "AI" chatbot and plagiarism LLM and search engine "assistant", it would not be eugenics or genocide. These things are not PEOPLE. There's no "intelligence" involved.
i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person
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"that's just not who we are" i say to the american SS beating me in the street
Trump is federalizing the National Guard in Illinois against our will—

An affront to American values and an extreme abuse of our military.

He’s terrorizing citizens in attempt to expand his power and punish opponents.

That’s just not who we are.

It’s authoritarian.
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banned books week…..a great time to buy a bunch of insanely famous books
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If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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If a tiny fraction of the resources deployed towards AI was invested instead in actual artists we'd be enjoying a renaissance rather than drowning in a sea of garbage
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Today so far feds in Chicagoland have:

Attacked & arrested protesters at the Broadview detention center w/the help of the ISP other agencies

Tear gassed a street in Logan Square that has a grocery store & elementary school on it, among other things

Violently handcuffed an Alderperson

It's 3pm
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The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
Vive la France!
BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy.

(🎥 Luc Auffret)
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The open use of federal funds as a blunt force object to get universities, cities, and other entities in line is criminal. Those are tax payer dollars! And so much capitulation! Dbjdonfonifbinrondondonodnonfonfoninfonfin
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Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.
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The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.