Aunt Eef
@aunteef.bsky.social
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Living in the Midwest in a small blue dot in a very red state. Supporter of democracy and TeamPete. Interested in science, nature, bloomscrolling, and politics. Also, cats. Not actually childless but my wonderful children are grown. she/her. No dms please.
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aunteef.bsky.social
I don't expect this to get a lot of traction, but:

Please add alt text, it's not hard & it's kind of fun.

Also, please credit artists in a post.

I may like an un-alt or uncredited post, but won't likely repost unless those things are included.

Artists deserve credit, and alt text is helpful. Thx
aunteef.bsky.social
That is what I want to know. How is he spending all this money on bailing out Argentina, building a ballroom, etc, without any approval from Congress or indication of where the 💰 is coming from? It's enraging!!
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pedsortho.bsky.social
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.
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the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social
“Operation Inflation” is offering free inflatable costumes to Portland ICE protesters.

Bravo and Brava!👩🏻‍🍳💋
aunteef.bsky.social
holy bajoly some of these are 😳
paulisci.bsky.social
A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days

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paulisci.bsky.social
A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days

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aunteef.bsky.social
The worst are the ones who have multiple meds (sorry), picking up for 3 different family members, don't have the right paperwork, can't get their credit card to work...

I'm 70 with RA and I promise you if I don't hot foot it to the counter ahead of them, I will wind up behind them every time 🏃‍♀️ 🙄😂
aunteef.bsky.social
Came here to say that and I have almost a decade on you lol 🤣
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wanderingrocket.bsky.social
You're being charged with evading arrest because we didn't have anything else to justify the arrest.

So let me get this straight. They have nothing to arrest you for. You've committed no arrestable crimes, so the act of running away from unidentified masked kidnappers IS the crime? Really?
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Winter babbys. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of a white man in winter clothing, sitting outside in a snowy park or boardwalk or something. Under each arm he’s holding a beautiful white medium haired cat.
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socialsecurityworks.org
Republicans claim we can't afford Social Security and Medicare.

They're giving a $40,000,000,000 bailout to Argentina.
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callyson.bsky.social
ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name
She even had her U.S. passport on her
"ICE determined she was an undocumented immigrant because she didn’t “look like” a Greeley. Greeley, who was born in Illinois, is Latina and adopted"
😡😡😡😡😡
newrepublic.com/post/201745/...
ICE is not protecting us
ICE is threatening us
Abolish ICE
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.
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hollyanderson.bsky.social
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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nerdypursuit.bsky.social
For the Sacramento Speaker Series, you usually have to buy a subscription to the whole series.

But last night, it looks like they started selling tickets specifically for Pete Buttigieg's talk on October 22nd.

If you're in Sacramento & want to see Pete:
ci.ovationtix.com/36629/pr/125...
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cwebbonline.com
Boom! Who’s winning the shutdown debate? THE ACA.

More Republicans than Democrats use the ACA marketplace. So the GOP’s base is relying on the same program their party is causing premiums to skyrocket.

45% of ACA marketplace enrollees are Republicans, and most live in GOP-held districts.
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canaansdad1987.bsky.social
I just wanted to make sure people were aware that this outspoken teacher who has a master's degree is very proudly gay and very proudly on the autism spectrum. He is married and is raising children. Do you know what doesn't hinder him? His autism.

#USDemocracy
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jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
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indivisible.org
Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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muellershewrote.com
This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?
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dougogg.bsky.social
Christmas in October? Well ... Last time I checked this book was on several bestseller lists (in both the US and Canada), so I recommend getting your order in sooner than later. Otherwise you may have to go with Plan B. (And Plan B is NEVER as good as Plan A—that's why it's called Plan B.)
brittlestar.com
I know it’s early but…
Wondering what to buy for the Secret Santa swap at the Antifa Christmas Party?
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thetnholler.bsky.social
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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scalzi.com
It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all
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peipolitical.bsky.social
An autistic boy who reportedly functions "like a 4-year-old child" has been missing for over a week—and it turns out ICE grabbed him in the bathroom and NEVER TOLD THE FAMILY.
#cdnpoli
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🐮 Biggle cow book; .
Philadelphia, W. Atkinson co., 1898..

[Source]
Illustration of a black Galloway cow standing on grass with a light blue sky background. The cow is depicted in profile, facing left, with a thick, curly coat, short legs, and a robust body. Its small ears and rounded muzzle are visible. The image is titled "PLATE VII" at the top, with "GALLOWAY COW" labeled below, indicating the breed. The artwork is detailed and colored, showing the cow’s texture and features typical of the Galloway breed, known for its hardiness and distinctive dark coat. The illustration is from a historical 1898 publication by W. Atkinson Co.