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Suzanne Dimmit
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Awestruck by our beautiful world.
Wife, mom, and grandma; cat lady.
Family archivist.
Kindness matters. Shine your light!
Banner of blue and yellow. Stand with Ukraine.
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whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
If you’re looking for proof that magical places still exist, I ask you to simply walk into your local library.
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
I think it is very important for everyone to be able to easily reference ALL of the words in this atrocious list of words that the #GOPRegime does not want us to use. Their aim is crystal clear. See ALT in both pictures for complete list.
#censorship much?
#fascism
#protectourdemocracy
Words to limit or avoid in government documents: • accessible• activism• activists• advocacy• advocate• advocates• affirming care• all-inclusive• allyship• anti-racism• antiracist• assigned at birth• assigned female at birth• assigned male at birth• at risk• barrier• barriers• belong• bias• biased• biased toward• biases• biases towards• biologically female• biologically male• BIPOC• Black• breastfeed + people• breastfeed + person• chestfeed + people• chestfeed + person• clean energy• climate crisis • climate science• commercial sex worker• community diversity• community equity• confirmation bias• cultural competence• cultural differences• cultural heritage• cultural sensitivity• culturally appropriate• culturally responsive• DEI• DEIA• DEIAB• DEIJ• disabilities• disability• discriminated• discrimination• discriminatory• disparity• diverse• diverse backgrounds• diverse communities• diverse community• diverse group• diverse groups• diversified• diversify• diversifying• diversity• enhance the diversity• enhancing diversity• environmental quality • equal opportunity• equality• equitable• equitableness• equity• ethnicity• excluded• exclusion• expression• female• females• feminism• fostering inclusivity• GBV• gender• gender based• gender based violence• gender diversity• gender identity• gender ideology• gender-affirming care• genders• Gulf of Mexico• hate speech• health disparity• health equity• hispanic minority• historically• identity• immigrants• implicit bias• implicit biases• inclusion• inclusive • inclusive leadership• inclusiveness• inclusivity• increase diversity• increase the diversity• indigenous community• inequalities• inequality• inequitable• inequities• inequity• injustice• institutional• intersectional• intersectionality• key groups• key people• key populations • Latinx• LGBT• LGBTQ• marginalize• marginalized• men who have sex with men• mental health• minorities• minority• most risk• MSM• multicultural• Mx • (continued as ALT on second picture) Words "to limit or avoid" continued: • Native American• non-binary• nonbinary • oppression• oppressive• orientation• people + uterus• people-centered care• person-centered• person-centered care• polarization• political• pollution• pregnant people• pregnant person• pregnant persons• prejudice• privilege• privileges• promote diversity• promoting diversity• pronoun• pronouns• prostitute• race• race and ethnicity• racial• racial diversity• racial identity• racial inequality• racial justice• racially• racism• segregation• sense of belonging• sex• sexual preferences • sexuality• social justice• sociocultural• socioeconomic• status• stereotype• stereotypes• systemic• systemically• they/them• trans• transgender• transsexual• trauma• traumatic• tribal• unconscious bias• underappreciated• underprivileged• underrepresentation• underrepresented• underserved• undervalued• victim• victims• vulnerable populations• women• women and underrepresented END
December 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
What, indeed, "is the point of having all this power if you won't use it to help people?"
Thank you, @ossoff.senate.gov!
#healthcare #affordability
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h
🔥 @ossoff.senate.gov on the ACA subsidies extension vote: “This is life or death.”

(@SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn both opposed it - but as Ossoff reminds us they were quick to vote to let themselves put millions of taxpayer dollars in their own pockets recently🤔)
December 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
A terrible deal for Ukraine.
A terrible deal for Europe.
A terrible deal for The United States of America.

This is a shameful situation. Not a #peacedeal.

May President #Zelensky and #Ukraine find a way to continue standing strong.
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
suzkd.bsky.social
“When third-party entities are paid based on the volume of denied services, there is a clear risk that care that is medically necessary for certain patients will be inappropriately denied in pursuit of savings.”

Another scheme by the #GOPRegime in which $$ goes to the wrong people.

#medicare
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
What an amazing world we inhabit!
jostephen.bsky.social Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 2d
Golden-eye Lichen, Teloschisties chrysophthalmus, on an apple tree in the village orchard.
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by Suzanne Dimmit
contrariannews.org
The real “garbage” lies within Trump’s own regime.
Words & Phrases to Throw Out
Garbage Abounds
contrarian.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
For many years, our #Christmas season began at a local #treefarm, where we searched for just the right tree. Our second-born was about 14 months old when this picture was taken, and his little legs were not quite up to the trek. #WeekXforXmas #AlphabetChallenge #MorrisCounty #NewJersey #NJ
Pictured from the back, a mother holds her toddler on her left hip as they walk through a Christmas tree farm. Toddler is wearing a black, red, & white striped knit hat, black jacket with red and white on the sleeves, blue knit mittens, striped denim overalls and white shoes. His head rests on his mother's shoulder and his outside arm is wrapped loosely around her arm. She is wearing jeans, a light gray jacket and beige, navy blue, & maroon snowflake-design knit hat with pompon. They are walking towards a group of 5- to 7-foot pine trees ready for Christmas harvesting. Beyond the pines, a thickly wooded forest of bare deciduous trees reaches up to a clear blue sky.
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
"The strategy also repeats the flawed assumption that cultural cohesion requires homogeneity."
logicallyjc.bsky.social John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 4d
It turns out that rock-bottom has a basement.
open.substack.com/pub/logicall...
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
We had one night, and the #sunset #sky at Rock Harbor Beach did not disappoint.
#BlueSkyArtShow #CapeCod #EastCoastKin
Sunset photo. The sun is an orange ball hanging above the dark beach and sea. Because the sun is halfway behind a line of deep purple/gray clouds, the sky above the clouds is very different than the sky below. Above the clouds, the darkening sky is clear and almost neutral, with the slightest hint of blue. Below the clouds the sky is ablaze: bright yellow just under the sun, transitioning to dark, rusty orange on each side of the photo.
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
suzkd.bsky.social
Another self-inflicted wound.
"an end to the universal #vaccination policy for #hepatitisB will likely mean the virus that attacks the liver will become more widespread, infectious disease doctors say.
Following the adoption of the policy in 1991, the U.S. saw pediatric hep B infections drop by 99%"
WA, other states still recommend hepatitis B vaccine for newborns
The West Coast Health Alliance pushed back against new federal guidance around the hepatitis B vaccine, saying changes were not credible or evidence-based.
www.seattletimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
"But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?"

#WeekWforWindows #AlphabetChallenge #Caturday #catsofbluesky
A black-brown and white tabby cat is meatloafed on a soft light-beige down comforter. He has placed himself perfectly in the center at the head of the bed. The foot of the bed is covered with a star-pattern quilt in shades of green, pink, yellow, and ivory. Behind the snoozy cat, a window reveals part of a light green tile-roofed home with a purple-leafed maple to its right. The window allows the spring afternoon to cast its gentle light on and around our boy, Ike.
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by Suzanne Dimmit
lalahaenzy.com
This should’ve reached me last week & it didn’t Which is to say that the media is yet again complicit & this administration quietly deceased a federal record
Please share this far & wide Use your voices
Shed light onto this horrendous act of erasing these women’s stories & their historical legacy
A picture of an indigenous woman and it says: The Trump Administration Deleted the Federal Report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women. - Judith Dayal A picture and it says: Last week, the Trump administration quietly deleted the 'Not One More' report from the Department of Justice website — the first federal report created to document the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous people, built from more than 250 testimonies from tribal citizens, mostly Native women, mothers, sisters, and survivors. Judith Dayal A picture and it says : Indigenous women have been fighting to be visible long before the United States existed on paper. Judith Dayal A picture and it says: Indigenous women deserve more than hashtags. They deserve more than mourning. They deserve safety - and they deserve to be remembered in broad daylight, not buried in deleted documents. Judith Dayal
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
Just STOP.
#NoForeverWars
votevets.org VoteVets @votevets.org · 6d
🚨 NO NEW FOREVER WARS 🚨

VoteVets launched NoForeverWars to stop the Trump administration's dangerous mission creep & ill-defined military actions.

Reps. Lieu, Deluzio, Ryan, & veteran leaders are fighting back. #NoForeverWars

www.youtube.com/watch?v=obBb...
Forever War - VoteVets
YouTube video by VoteVets
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
It's difficult to believe that this very important thread is necessary after decades of life-saving by #vaccines.
#vaccinessavelives #vaccineswork #science
sailorrooscout.bsky.social Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 8d
“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.”

Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.

Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
Not a LA constituent of Sen. Cassidy, but I contacted his office today to literally plead for him to do what he knows is right. Changing the #HepatitisB #vaccine schedule for infants will undo decades of improved outcomes for American children. We must not go back. #CDC #ACIP #science #publichealth
jonathanbernstein.bsky.social Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 7d
That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.
mattmotta.bsky.social Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social · 7d
ACIP may end universal Hep B vaccination today.

Hep B prevention is Cassidy's passion, as he made clear during RFK Jr's confirmation hearings.

But let's not forget... his vote to confirm RFK Jr. got us into this mess!

He needs to use every lever of power he has in the Senate to fix it.
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
Reflection in our dining room window tonight featuring our Christmas tree in the room behind me. Felt holiday light garland made by a friend years ago. Grateful for home. #WeekWforWindows #AlphabetChallenge
Nighttime window reflection of a Christmas tree lit with white lights. A felt garland with colorful holiday light shapes hangs in front of the tree.
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
New essay: "The Many Desks of Reporter Dan Lamothe"

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-many-d...
It was pretty clear from the start of Trump’s second term that his defense team were looking to replace seasoned military journalists burdened by professionalism and integrity with folks from friendly outlets that are far more at home as state media propagandists cosplaying as reporters. In early October, the Pentagon announced a new policy requiring all journalists sign a pledge that they would not gather or release information not explicitly authorized by Defense Department officials, regardless of intelligence classification. It also revoked their previous access to most of the building without an official escort. A failure to sign the pledge would mean a loss of press credentials. Burdened by said integrity, dozens of reporters refused to sign the pledge and turned over their credentials, walking out of the space en masse where some of them had faithfully worked their whole careers. That brings us to this week—“New Media Week” as Hegseth’s public affairs team have dubbed it—in which an incoming group of propagandists, charlatans, and grifters have descended on the Pentagon, claiming those very spaces once held by actual journalists, to unapologetically play their roles in Trump’s ongoing state media project. They’re podcasters and YouTubers and social media influencers — not a single real journalist among them. Their job is to parrot what Cult Daddy tells them to say, and in the meantime, they’re free to engage in all the usual, cringey “look, Mom, I’m an edgy populist” antics we’ve come to expect from such sad souls.
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
"Self-inflicted spite" - a guiding principle (if you can call it that) of the #GOPRegime. Along with #grift.
invisiblelad7.bsky.social I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 9d
It's clear all these heartland white nationalist propagandists haven't ever taken a demography class. the things that make the American economy so buoyant and resilient are immigration related. America is now essentially paying through the nose to hollow its working age population.
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
suzkd.bsky.social
The windows of Hecata Head Light protect its First-Order Fresnel lens, which produces the strongest light on the #OregonCoast. The beam is visible for about 21 nautical miles. #WeekWforWindows #AlphabetChallenge #lighthouse #window #pnw
The upper section of a lighthouse rises above what appears to be a pink metal roof on the adjacent building. The lighthouse exterior is off-gray masonry topped by a window encased section that houses the Fresnel lens. The dark roof over the light is adorned by a rounded pink "topper."
December 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
suzkd.bsky.social
If they really care about my mental health, they will not be emailing me photos of Dr. Oz.
#GOPRegime #DrOz #Healthcare #Medicare
#BelieveinScience #ScienceMatters
Screenshot of an email from Medicare.gov. The subject line is "Your mental health matters." Under the Medicare.gov header, there is a photo of Dr. Mehmet Oz with the words "Stay Health with Dr. Oz."
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
Mind-boggling hypocrisy.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11d
Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
November 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
suzkd.bsky.social
So true, @jaybird54.bsky.social! Thank you for this reminder of how important it is to remember that every single day we have the opportunity to make a difference in the life of someone we may or may not even know.
jaybird54.bsky.social Jaye @jaybird54.bsky.social · 14d
#ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited Good morning, incredible friends. Your profound influence on people is greater than you can imagine. You truly make a difference, whether you realize it or not. #Jaye’sMorningLight
November 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reposted by Suzanne Dimmit
boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social
Great reminder for all Americans…
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM