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Claudia Montague Wheatley

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The gravest threat to our country today is the FACT that our president, Donald J. Trump, has dementia. He'll never get better. He WILL get worse. And the question of what happens next becomes more pressing every day. Why isn't everyone talking about that?

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · Aug 3

Let's go over the reasons why Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison—and why she absolutely deserves to remain there, unpardoned, with no immunity.

You can watch the video or read the captions.

We'll do this slowly so everyone can follow along. (1/4)

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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 5h

The #NoKings rallies will be EVERYWHERE! Find your location and attend!

The Trump Administration is already FURIOUS about it! www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 7h

Does Holy Moses EVER do any, you know, WORK?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 12h

Bought what I thought was a bottle of flavored still water to sip while grocery shopping.

SURPRISE! It was SPARKLING water!

It sparkled ALL OVER my shopping bags and the cart corral inside Wegmans!

A Helping Hand came over with a Wet Floor flag and gave me A Look!

... so how's your day going?

a tractor with a hose attached to it is spraying water on a car .

ALT: a tractor with a hose attached to it is spraying water on a car .

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 13h

LOL: Have him take up horseback riding. 🤠🐴

✅ Highly addictive

✅ Expensive af

✅ Could easily lead to bodily damage but maybe not!!! 🤞🤞🤞

Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 13h

I'd like to read your book but I'm an old lady = nervous about sharing credit card/bank info with an unknown vendor (stan.store).

Could I Venmo you the $9.99, and have you email me the PDF of your book directly?

Stan - Your Creator Store

We work 1-on-1 with the Top Creators to monetize their business

stan.store

Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 13h

Someone needs to write a book about the prevalence of kidnapping as a tool of oppression or for sex trafficking in the USA.

Black kids.

Indigenous kids.

Latino kids.

Babies born to poor white parents.

Epstein/Maxwell/Trump trapped poor white girls from broken homes/Eastern Europe.

WTF America?

Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 1d

The Children They Sold They Don’t Want You to Know About: Thousands of free Black kids were kidnapped and erased from history.

medium.com/@gxldsociety...

The Children They Sold They Don’t Want You to Know About

“Thousands of free Black kids were kidnapped and erased from history.”

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KindLivesMatter @bekindforthefuture.bsky.social · 14h

Honoring Indigenous Peoples Day 🫶

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LLFella 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @lizafella.bsky.social · 1d

This is brilliant!

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 13h

Is ... this from today?

Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 16h

Do not go unarmed into a battle of wits with Derek Guy!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

underrated part of this is that stoller very clearly has no idea what "the passive voice" is

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

no quarter given lmao

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Uncle Lonny @unclelonny.bsky.social · 16h

#USDemocracy

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 16h

Is MAGA's appetite for this flavor of bullshit really endless?

Quick: How much does a Waffle House waitress make, Nancy? Wages and tips?

Do they ever get hits on right-wing TV?

They definitely don't get to live in the governor's mansion.

Stop playing dress-up and tell us what you can do for SC.

Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 16h

So you do see. 🤨

Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 17h

I'm a white WOMAN.

Born in 1958, I was told I could be a wife/mother, teacher, nurse or nun.

Birth control, abortion: Illegal. Divorce: Impossible, esp. for Catholics.

If not for feminism, I could've been tied to an abusive spouse having kids until my uterus fell out.

Do some reading about THAT.

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 17h

Hell, one of my great-great-grands came from Belgium, where Audrey Hepburn was born.

She was a British citizen via her father, but I'm part English, too, so Audrey Hepburn Day could be a two-fer!

See how silly it gets?

Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 17h

You really want a lost sailor/genocidal monster representing you?

Also, I'm part Swiss—when do we get a Michelle Pfeiffer Day? Albert Einstein Day? How about Louis Chevrolet Day?

Any one of them is 1000x less horrific than Columbus.

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 17h

I'm with her ⬇️

Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 17h

I am very familiar with this story. The Klan wasn't crazy about Catholics, period. But I'll never demand Pope Leo Day—and he's 1000x better than Colón.

And again: Because of an atrocity less than 100 years ago, you want to celebrate a man who set in motion SIX CENTURIES of human rights violations?

Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 17h

Find a better role model.

This one SUCKS.

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 17h

… so in order to rectify an atrocity less than 100 years ago, you demand a day to honor a man who committed atrocities 600 years ago—and set in motion centuries of ghastly human rights violations?

Seems like we could find a better national role model.

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 17h

What about the work and contributions of German Americans? When do we get Hitler Day?

“That’s ridiculous, Hitler was a mass murd—

“Oh.”

Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 17h

Donnie "Demento" Trump: World's Biggest LOSER.

SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 19h

Judge blocks National Guard deployment in Illinois for 2 weeks

So Trump lost in Oregon and in Illinois, talk about fraud, waste and abuse. He is wasting so much of our tax dollars just to avoid the release of the Epstein files and to cause chaos. Worst president ever!!!
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Judge blocks National Guard deployment in Illinois for 2 weeks

A judge has blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area for two weeks, finding no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” is brewing in Illinois.

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 17h

My sentiments exactly. ✋

🇨🇦 📎🇺🇸 Matt 🖇 🇺🇦 🇲🇽 @baltimoremax.bsky.social · 18h

This guy has connected the dots 😎👍
youtube.com/shorts/-rvvW...

This is real, unfiltered conversation at the ICE Protests outside of Chicago. #protest #trump

YouTube video by Don Lemon

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 18h

I have such mixed feelings about this kind of thing.

On one hand, he might be gay: So what?

OTOH, the "so what?" is pretty terrible. If he IS gay, he's a fucking traitor to the LGBTQ+ community by allowing his court to edge ever closer to robbing them of rights.

Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 18h

Hey Gym: Seen any good movies lately?
www.imdb.com/title/tt1426...

Salty Snowbird @belliled.bsky.social · 18h

Lord's work? Did Gym Jordan do that when he was at Ohio State?

huffpost.com/entry/jim-jordan-praises-ice-agents_n_68ebbefbe4b096c4c84f81ff?origin=home-whats-happening-unit

GOP Rep Claims ICE Agents Are ‘Doing The Lord’s Work’

The GOP rep called the “pushback” ICE has been getting “interesting.”

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