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Retired Software Exec. Mosaic Crochet, Knitting, Cooking, Baking, Hiking, Reading. #NewMexico https://lindybrandon.substack.com/ Be good to each other.

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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 9h

And yet it keeps happening.

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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the deal, Mike Johnson, you worked 9 days since July, make $200K, and get best free healthcare we pay for, while shutting down ours.

Want it fair? Start with your paychecks. No work, no pay and no damn free healthcare for any of you. Let Congress feel the pain they dump on the rest of us.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Are you ready for the largest peaceful protest in modern US history? In five days, millions of Americans will stand up and speak out on a massive scale to reject Trump’s authoritarianism and show the world what democracy looks like. We’ll see you on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 1d

This morning's harvest. I love that the roses are blooming again. Fall is wonderful in #NewMexico

lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 2d

me too! #NoKings

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 2d

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
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Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 2d

These people are kidnapping and murdering our fellow citizens. They need to pay a price.

Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 2d

Say his name.

#SilverioVillegasGonzalez

How do you tell the innocent children that their only father will never come home?

#USDemocracy

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 3d

The Constitution isn’t self-executing or self protecting. It needs defenders: be one.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3d

Anyways I’m gonna go canvass for Prop 50, make sure to vote YES if you live in California

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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 3d

Morning #glow lighting up the skies at the #albuquerque #balloonfiesta.
#BlueSkyArtShow

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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 4d

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 5d

Love this! Go Chicago!

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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 5d

I write about contestants in the Pillsbury Bake-off and their life stories outside of that. Lillian Willis had a different bake-off experience than her white counterparts. In 1949, she traveled to the bake-off under Jim Crow laws.
#baking #geneaology

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1949: Festive Upside-Down Cake

The only Black contestant in the 1949 Bake-off, Lillian Willis faced Jim Crow complications head on to bring her cake to the National Competition. A twist on the iconic upside-down cake by Mrs. L. W. ...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6d

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 6d

I know, I know. But we're watching violence against peaceful protesters as well as whoever they decide is here "illegally". It's so .... dismaying

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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 6d

True. It's so hard to watch

lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 6d

Whoa. How did you get there from what I said? Of course I know this and I do blame the pedophile regime. But I can also see the violence erupting against peaceful protesters in Illinois and I'm just expressing my surprise that Pritzger hasn't been more aggressive against it. Jump back.

lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 6d

Can he not call the illinois national guard to protect people?

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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 6d

Hmmm. I think he HAS come for your people. Where are you?

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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 6d

Where is @govpritzker.illinois.gov ??? I expected more of a fight from this state and more protection from their own National Guard

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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 7d

Wasting your breath. Misogyny is one of their key policies.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

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Alan @alanwordguy.bsky.social · 7d

One of the few things I don't mind waking up early for
#balloonfiesta #hotairballoon #newmexico #newmexicotrue

A view from the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta field showing dozens of hot air balloons on the ground and in the air, with the Sandia Mountains in the background.

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lindybrandon @lindybrandon.bsky.social · 7d

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