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Grandma Jo Ann

@bookmom1957.bsky.social

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Just an Ohio grandmother who is struggling to remain civil with anyone who voted for the orange human garbage sitting in the White House….

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

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Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · 21d

Geez, I thought he was one of the more normal republicans.... guess not. Didn't he have a close election last time?

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Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Sep 10

Moskowitz is so good at this…. As if everyone in that room doesn’t know the Speaker lies hourly to cover for the orange child rapist.

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James Tate @jamestate121.bsky.social · Jul 4

Happy 4th of July.

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Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Apr 30

Mr Worm Man... I beg to disagree. Both of our daughters were Valedictorian of their school class, went on to earn advanced medical degrees and have never had a cavity.... and there was fluoride in their water.

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Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Apr 30

Mr. Worm Man, I beg to differ.... My daughters were both valedictorians of their high school class, obtained advanced medical degrees and lo and behold have no cavities... and they had fluoride in their water.

Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Apr 16

This is why I support the Warriors. He is a great man!

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Apr 10

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

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Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Mar 28

Duh

Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Mar 26

You’re so kind! Thank you!

Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Mar 16

Thank you CBS and 60 Minutes for sharing the music of our best and brightest! I was extremely touched!

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Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Feb 24

I was hoping you'd have your own show.... You were so good!

Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Feb 21

Thank you, Susan Glasser!

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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · Feb 21

Just as jarring as Trump's pro-Russia foreign policy pivot has been his embrace of Putin-like tactics at home, unfolding with a speed and ferocity far different than what Trump was able to pull off in his first term. Call it the Putinization of America. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Donald Trump’s Putinization of America

It’s not just in foreign policy that the President is turning Russia’s way.

www.newyorker.com

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · Feb 21

Perhaps the most shameful aspect of this moment in our country's history is the sheer cowardice of the GOP 👇

Read more here: bit.ly/41pxP3k

#TraitorTrump

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Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Feb 19

Our president, everyone…. I hate this man/child!

TRUMP JUST NOW:
"[Ukraine] should have ended it. You [Ukraine] should have never started it, you could have made a deal." What a F-cking traitor.

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Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Feb 3

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · Feb 3

To the people I know who voted for him,

You know how I feel about him.

There’s nothing I could say about him that you don’t already know.

But as this next chapter of our nation begins, I just want you to know:

I am going to hold you responsible.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

To The People I Know Who Voted for Him,

To the people I know who voted for him,

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · Feb 2

Dear Leaders of the Free World,

Fight him at every turn.
Make his life miserable.
Expose his ignorance and sociopathy.
Oppose and condemn and marginalize him.
The decent people of this nation are not with him.

We stand with you.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

Dear World, (An Apology From Decent Americans)

Dear World,

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

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Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Jan 31

My husband created a “Migrants Lives Matter” flag …

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Grandma Jo Ann @bookmom1957.bsky.social · Jan 28

She’s amazing…