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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 9h

He couldn't possibly be more loathsome, some law of physics prevents it.

Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 10h

People with power, who have never struggled in any way, just assume that everyone else is as lazy and useless as they are.

Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 10h

If has never happened to them, it doesn't exist. This works for self-absorbed people with all different sorts of privilege.

Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 11h

What kind of pathetic, wimpy, deity needs to be rescued by humans? I wouldn't worship anything that weak.

Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 11h

I do that too.

Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 11h

When is law enforcement going to protect the public from the murderer/pedophile/rapist who is occupying the White House.

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 14h

Make those Gravy Seals run! They probably won't make it.

Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 14h

It's not a "We Hate America" thing, it's a "We Hate Fascism" thing. If you don't know the difference, you are probably a fascist.

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone who is capable of blaming an infant for anything, should not be allowed to raise children. My kids knew I had had complications, and they also knew it was not anyone's fault. I had a near fatal recurrence when our kids were 7 and 4, so they definitely knew what was going on.

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 15h

It is all kinds of wrong. I nearly died of complications of childbirth, but it never occurred to me to blame anyone for that, especially not my newborn infant son!

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 15h

My MIL contracted polio when she was in the hospital giving birth to her first child (my husband). She ended up with a limp. She never forgave him.

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 15h

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMyoHThr/. Budget Rental Cars and U-Haul need to be contacted

ICE used Budget and U-Haul trucks as part of an immigration raid in Chicago earlier this week. Call them out on social asking if they support the use of their vehicles this way. Refuse to rent from th...

TikTok video by Indivisible Chicago Northwest

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 18h

I am ready!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 18h

This made me cry. Kermit gets me every time.

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 20h

share.google/images/xJFZ8.... The inspiration for Trump's league of plastic Mara Lago bunnies:

Google Image Result for https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thunderbirds/images/7/75/Make-up_Girl.png/revision/latest?cb=20171109102807

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 20h

I want Amber to be my best friend! What a wonderful laugh, and wild enthusiasm! Here, this is for you, a photo of one of the puppets from "Thunderbirds": share.google/MZNYew0l78Tu...

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 20h

youtube.com/shorts/-_kPM.... Being vicious about people who are different from you, is not a winning strategy:

Mass deportations cause American workers to lose jobs, wages to go down, and our economy to slow

YouTube video by Representative Pramila Jayapal

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 1d

Bigotries of all kinds survive progressivism.

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 1d

I bet a lot of people now understand why more Jews didn't flee Europe in the 1930's.

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 1d

I never memorized phone numbers, because I have such a bad memory that I actually can't memorize more phone numbers than my own.

Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 1d

Federal agents, eager and ready to kidnap brown people, arrived in Budget Rental Car vehicles. I will be contacting Brian Choi, the President and CEO of the Avis Budget Group, and mentioning how bad it is for PR, to knowingly be renting vehicles to kidnappers. [email protected]

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Lindsey has the fantods again.

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Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 1d

Good riddance to any cop who doesn't believe in free and fair elections!

Ellen Sandbeck @esandbeck.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up on Coast Miwok land. Learning about Miwok culture was part of our public school curriculum all through elementary school.

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