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Poodle Mom

@blackpoodlered.bsky.social

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Dog lover with a soft spot for poodles. Proud Canadian, pro-democracy. Policy wonk. Consummate nerd. I try to live by Pemba Chodron’s wise words: *** “Let compassion and fearlessness guide you and you’ll live wisely and effectively in good times and bad”

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Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 17m

The famous poem rings a bell. That’s why it’s so important to hold the line!

There is not halfway between human rights and inhumanity.

Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 19m

Or just not as good at hiding it?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 23m

“Croak” also works, but might get someone pepper sprayed

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 5h

Oh he knows 😂😂😂

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 6h

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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Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂😂

But they had to work hard to get where they are…

“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
Franklin Leonard

Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 1d

Aww what a cutie 🥰 the long legs and fluffy ears.

The one in my profile pic comes from a family of white and apricot. He was the black sheep of his family 😂

Remi sends his regards as well and wish he could play with Shelby. He says she’s very cute. He’s a flirt ❤️

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Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 1d

Well now you know why they hate DEI. White men who can’t compete on talent or intellect alone want to level the playing field by making white the only criteria that matters

Yay mediocrity!!

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Canadian Cynic @canadiancynic.bsky.social · 1d

This over-the-top, incendiary hyperbole is so depressingly typical of the MAGA-flavoured Right -- Botox Bozo Kristi Noem whinges on about "violent Antifa protesters", when it turned out she was being mocked by a guy in a chicken suit. But let's look at the Canadian versions (courtesy of Rebel News).

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Chelsea Blue @lordye.bsky.social · 1d

Frogtastic 🐸🐸🐸

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Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 4d

Well, except for the renamed department of war 😂😂😂😂

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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 4d

She knows how to work Trump. At this rate America will remove Maduro and install Machado

Venezuelan opposition leader dedicates Nobel Prize to Trump for ‘decisive support’

“I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause,” she wrote in a post on X.

www.politico.com

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Sexual Harassment Panda @cockmagic.bsky.social · 4d

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Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 5d

Majority of military voted for 45

E.g www.prweb.com/releases/202...

2024 GOVX Election Poll: U.S. Military and First Responders Overwhelmingly Support Trump

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- GOVX, the online shopping platform exclusively for current and former military, first responders, emergency medical professionals,...

www.prweb.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 5d

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 6d

He just said it. 100% unironically and unmistakably.

“We took the freedom of speech away.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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🦋 Still Standing 🦋 @imstillstanding.bsky.social · 7d

Important info for US Citizens stopped by ice.

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Exhausted🍁Introvert 🫘 @naturallyaspirated.bsky.social · 6d

That one and this one. Her choice of red doesn’t go unnoticed.

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Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 6d

Keep up the fight Chicago! 💔

And all other cities fighting against fascists

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 7d

Yes! We are walking a tight rope right now. No one is perfect but at least he seems to think before he acts so that’s miles above leaders on the right…

Poodle Mom @blackpoodlered.bsky.social · 7d

And I hope ppl like you come to understand diplomacy. I wish he would kick 45 in the nuts and spit on Netanyahu.

But that would hurt Canadians and any chance of peace. Glad our leader is not as impulsive as I am.