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CC Gene

@ccgene.bsky.social

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Just a California liberal who loves dogs, music and art. I will not go down quietly to an authoritarian dictatorship so I am here to talk, meet and congregate with those who feel the same. Adding me to a list will just get you blocked. ✌️ She/Her Boss/Bish

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CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thank you!!! Why can’t people understand this? We all have skills. We can all do something. The youngest of us and the oldest of us. It will take all of us. All colors, shapes, sizes, ethnicities, races, creeds and religious beliefs. All. Of. Us!

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CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 28m

I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with them.

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CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 31m

The top person is blocking me? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 48m

If you see this, QTP with a sword 🗡️

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CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 51m

That is correct. 😉

CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 52m

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CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 55m

🤣🤣🤣

CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 56m

Did you need one of these @amien.bsky.social

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adriennearche11.bsky.social @adriennearche11.bsky.social · 1h

www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

Let’s be the 3.5%, No Kings peaceful march for democracy.

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world

Research featuring Carr Center's Erica Chenoweth. Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to ...

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CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 1h

Never. Gonna. Happen.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Trump’s everlasting peace in the Middle East held for 24 hours, so now he has to defend Hamas killing people to keep his Nobel Prize hopes alive.

CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 2h

Are they still going? 🙄

CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 6h

It’s showing blocked so I thought I would drop this here to help everyone out. 😏

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CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 6h

They will have a plan, or maybe concepts of a plan, in two weeks.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

Meiselas: MAGA Mike Johnson was being questioned about the shutdown during this disastrous press conference he held. He literally says, “I don’t have any strategy." Then Rep. Lisa McClain jumps in, apparently realizing Mike Johnson had just blown it and she completely unravels on camera.

CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 6h

🔥🔥🔥

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
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CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 7h

But racism in this country is no longer an issue according to the black man currently sitting on our most high court. 🙄

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

Leaked messages from leaders of Young Republican groups obtained by Politico:

They referred to Black people as monkeys and "the watermelon people" and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 7h

LMAO. YO! TMI!!!

CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 7h

I found that out in 2016 but it was solidified in 2020.

CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 7h

Done. ✔️

CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 7h

Woohoo. I’m safe. Who needs a life badonka?

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