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Aprilcots
@aprilcots.bsky.social
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“Like a cup of strong coffee mixed with existential dread, her posts are refreshingly bitter with a hint of sweetness.” -Bluesky Roast 😂 Exmo. Singer. Book reviewer. History nerd. Writer. Med family. Doodle enabler. Snarky. Not a fan of tyranny.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · Nov 14
Hello to all of my new followers! You should know that while I always try to be respectful, I am an Exmormon who sometimes will rant about the actions of the church and its members. I don’t like to criticize someone’s belief systems without their consent, so consider this your warning.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 10h
He’s also brown and has spoken out against 🧊 and the mango Mussolini. So, terribly divisive. 🙄
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 11h
Ugh. Days with embarrassing Mormon incident? 0. (Also can we be done trying to convince progmos that the church endorses all of this right wing garbage yet? It’s pervasive and straight out of Fox News. The most recent conference should have been convincing and this is just additional proof)
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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 11h
The LDS Church’s newspaper Deseret News, which last week said Bad Bunny was too divisive a figure for the Super Bowl, also thinks people are being too hard on Columbus. www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
Perspective: To understand Columbus, try reading even more about him
Portrayals of Columbus as a villain often rely on select moments taken out of context, while dismissing a great deal of other evidence, including his own stated intentions.
www.deseret.com
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 15h
Leviticus 19:33-34. “And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”

More of this.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 16h
"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby
Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.
www.nbcchicago.com
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 16h
Ragtime. Listen to it from the beginning. It’s incredibly prescient right now. Hamilton. Les Mis. Miss Saigon. Fiddler on the Roof. Aida. All of them will feel very important in this moment (My degrees are in musical theater).
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 20h
Mentally pacing his future prison cell.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 1d
Feel free! 😂 And thank you!
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 1d
The good news is that he’s making dinner right now and I’m ensconced on the couch catching up on NCIS.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah. He caught himself on my ankle. His full weight. I screamed and couldn’t put weight on it for hours. I’m hoping it’s just a sprain and I can avoid getting an x-ray, which is like a month wait here right now. One would think being married to a radiologist would come with perks, but no.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 1d
Basically I think if we have to endure the fall of democracy and *waves hand broadly,* then there should be a moratorium on all other things unpleasant. It’s really the least the universe can do.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 1d
Last night we were down in the movie room and I was in a bean bag minding my own business, when hubs fell off the step (it’s a tiered room), and his hand landed right on the top of my foot, we think pulling the ligaments on both sides of my ankle. Today I’m a gimpy, swollen disaster. 😔 I can’t even.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 1d
More of this please.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 1d
Boo! I liked him.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 2d
I saw. 😂
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 2d
They’re so close, yet so far from coming to terms with the fact that the call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE. The church effectively runs the legislature in Utah. If they wanted fair districting, they’d have fair districting. These women are funding their own opposition with their tithing dollars.
In Utah, a group that helped prompt the redistricting says it's acting on faith
Mormon Women for Ethical Government was one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit that could overturn Utah's Republican-leaning map for U.S. House seats. That could matter in next year's elections.
www.npr.org
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 2d
Ok, like I always asked my students when I used to teach, or my teen basically everyday, “What do you see?” Tell me everything that’s wrong with this. It’s a lot, but I’ll wait. 😠
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Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · 2d
There are SO many things wrong this drech. Begin with the deliberate shattering of long-held church-state norms and the clear advocacy of particularly reactionary Christianity. Then the embrace of ahistorical crap, highlighted by that image of GW praying — probably never happened.
The U.S. govt website for the Trump regime’s “America Prays” effort.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 2d
I’m so over waking up to news like this. We’re on our own, guys. Oh and cases of basically everything are rising right now.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 3d
If you don’t know, Cristela Alonzo has three comedy specials on Netflix and they are SO funny. If you need some happiness for a little while tonight, she’s a delight.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 3d
It hasn’t happened! 😂 The book and tea did though!
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 3d
“Most of what we chase doesn’t matter.” Can confirm. We have been pursuing this mindset for years now, and it’s so much better than the burnout that was before.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 3d
Ok, our internet is supposedly faster and our day was completely usurped. Oof.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 3d
Sounds like a plan. Now I need cinnamon rolls.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 3d
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under absolutely no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend drinking tea, reading books, and eating a scandalous amount of cinnamon rolls.
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 3d
“We’re teaching principles and the doctrine of Christ,” she said. “I don’t think we’re necessarily learning how to apply those things.”
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 3d
“If I’m analyzing it as a historian, it’s speaking to this moment that the Church needs to make clear to this administration that it’s not a sanctuary church.”
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Aprilcots @aprilcots.bsky.social · 3d
“But its most recent statement published in January listed three points in order. While it reads similarly to past statements on loving thy neighbor and concern about keeping families together, the first point this time notably focused on “obeying the law.”
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