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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋

@rosegardenerwi.bsky.social

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🦋 Just a female, white, suburban, baby-boomer who is progressive (as in Bernie Sanders, AOC and Pramila Jayapal progressive). Within me competes both a romantic poet and a snarky cynic... Follow me and I'll follow you

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · Jan 23

On Monday I pulled MLK's "Strength to Love" off my bookcase to read one of his sermons on his day. And I've decided to keep it on the table by my chair going forward. In the days and years ahead, I will be reading MLK regularly ... as the dirty road ahead of us unfolds... I need his wisdom...

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 55m

Don't let corporate dems and their big$ owners stop Platner. Help if you can.

www.bangordailynews.com/2025/10/15/p...

Graham Platner has raised $500K since Janet Mills joined the Senate race

That’s half of what Mills raised during the same period but suggests strong ongoing support for the previously un

www.bangordailynews.com

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 6h

Ron Johnson screaming to the whole wide world that he fears people exercising their free speech rights.🤷🏻‍♀️

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 7h

Welp ... THESE "young" Republicans are not living up to the Hegseth standard
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'Our troops need to be fit - not fat,’ Pete Hegseth tells US Army War College in speech

www.yahoo.com/news/troops-...

'Our troops need to be fit - not fat,’ Pete Hegseth tells US Army War College in speech

'Our troops need to be fit - not fat,’ Pete Hegseth tells US Army War College in speechSource: DoD/TMX

www.yahoo.com

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 23h

Re: What would you say if it were your child?

They don't ever ask that question of themselves. They have tRump's world-view. (If you're rich &/or white you can do anything.) So, in their self-centered little brains, it will never be their child.🤷🏻‍♀️

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 23h

Uff da..... standing tall and straight-up naming the enemy. He knows he's making himself a target, and yet he speaks truth to power anyway.

This alone garners respect....

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 1d

.... group chat members spoke freely about the pressure to cow to Trump to avoid being called a RINO, the love of Nazis within their party’s right wing...
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Republicans are racist, misogynistic, white supremacists....🤷

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like a good time to note that tRump's policies are gutting American farmers.

And to keep in mind that Vance's business interests profit off of buying up foreclosed properties....🤷🏻‍♀️

But.... sure... Argentina needs U.S. taxpayer money. 🤷🏻‍♀️

www.commondreams.org/news/farmers...

'I've Never Seen Anything Like It': Trump Policies Leave US Farmers in Dire Straits | Common Dreams

"It's a five-alarm fire," one Kentucky soybean farmer said, describing the harmful effects of the president's tariffs.

www.commondreams.org

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 1d

This! All over the place... THIS!!!!!

It's "Blue no matter who" UNLESS the candidate is a progressive willing to take on big$. Then corporate dems withhold all meaningful support. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 1d

They all know the end game for a proper genocide is to remove all people who managed to live through the slaughter and take over their lands.🤷🏻‍♀️

They all know.

And none of them care.

And all the rest of us stand down from "celebrating peace" because we know the end game is coming (and we care).

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah... but add a lot of orange cover cream to the face.😊

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 1d

Can you get a dragon?

It would be fantastic for an army of dragons to make a showing.😉

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Danxilu Inflatable Costume Adult Full Body Inflatable Costumes for Men Women Funny Blow Up Suit for Halloween Party Cosplay

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 2d

Kangaroo Court on steroids..
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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 2d

RE:... become a discrete right-wing political operation.

"Discrete" my patootie...

Police, in this country, are a full-on, in-your-face right-wing political machine. There is NOTHING "discrete" about it.🤷🏻‍♀️

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 3d

The universe does bend towards justice and there will be a reckoning for all the evil unfolding in these times....

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly..... when she was younger, she was grounded & connected with average Wisconsinites. Now she's just one more bought-n-paid-for politician.

Just once I wish journalists would ask her tough questions about where her loyalties lie & confront her about the big$ she takes.🤷🏻‍♀️

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 3d

When she actually does town halls in WI, i'll listen to her. Until then she is AWOL and setting herself up for a right-wing smooth talking Republican to take her down.

I used to respect her, back when she was younger and actually connected with constituents. Not any more.🤷🏻‍♀️

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 3d

Same (or worse) with the term "woke".🤷🏻‍♀️

How is being woke enough to comprehend the world is bigger than the sum total of a sleepers' dream is beyond me.🤷🏻‍♀️

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 3d

.....And heartless and cruel and just plain stupid.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

HHS rehiring some people fired through reduction-in-force efforts

A Trump administration legal document said HHS initially targeted 1,000 to 1,200 employees for dismissal, and people speaking with POLITICO say the firings focused on the CDC.

www.yahoo.com

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 3d

This seems like a good point yo remind everyone that the tRump mob is clueless and inept...

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump axes, then scrambles to rehire, critical CDC workers amid shutdown job cuts

Hundreds of the fired CDC workers may be brought back, but it’s unclear when they’ll return to work

www.independent.co.uk

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 9d

RIP CBS

The death knell has begun for the network which gave us:

* Walter Cronkite
* Edward R. Murrow
* Mike Wallace
* Harry Reasoner
* Dan Rather

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🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 10d

RE: If Democrats were smart (laughsob) they would ....

The operative word being "IF...".🤷

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 11d

Actually Lake Michigan is a Great Lake. And using the Great Lake network, it's considered a border. Has been for years.

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 11d

Would it be possible for you to post videos of full town halls on YouTube? YouTube videos are much easier for the rest of us to share. We can help spread the word, but we need videos that cover the entirety of your townhall and we need YouTubes.

🌹Rose Gardener 🦋 @rosegardenerwi.bsky.social · 12d

Re: GOP blames government shutdown on health care for undocumented people. That's false

It's more than false @npr.org, it's a straight-up lie. Call it what it is.🤷🏻‍♀️