FluffyJ

FluffyJ

@fluffyj.bsky.social

Art explorer, journal and bookmaker, Zentangle lover-CZT#3, TV show fan, botanical and forest admirer, soul wanderer, poet as the mood strikes :)

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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control. - Robert Reich

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I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

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The extreme MAGA Republican budget will close hospitals, shut down nursing homes and deprive children of healthcare. There are 215 Democrats in the House who actually want to love and cherish Medicaid, not destroy it. We only need three House Republicans to join us.

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BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

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This is what spending $290 million on an election gets you. Money in politics has always corrupted, but it's hardly been this brazen.

David Sirota@davidsirota.com

🚨NEWS: Trump is firing specific inspectors general whose offices have investigated Elon Musk’s companies and their business matters with the government. Inspectors general are independent nonpartisan appointees who audit spending and investigate fraud.

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It's ILLEGAL for special government employees to do government work that affects their own financial interests! Musk's companies got $3.3 BILLION in US government contracts in 2024, and now he's deciding who gets federal funding. House Judiciary Dems are calling on the DOJ to investigate NOW.

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Replying to @crockett.house.gov

It’s time for some billionaires to step in and lend a hand in life saving efforts.

WTF?

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

A non-government business that contracts with the federal government received notice today that in order to do business with the government they must certify that they don’t participate in DEI. So it’s not just the feds, it’s any private biz that contracts with the feds. Here’s the message they got:

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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

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"Oh, what a shame you're 'just a children's bookshop." We hear this all too often. 📚 Children and teens deserve spaces and shops for them 📚 Children's and YA books change lives. It's not a shame we're a children's bookshop. It's a beautiful thing 💕

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Republicans on the NC Supreme Court just blocked certification of a Democratic justice's election win. Her GOP opponent is trying to throw out 60,000 ballots cast in November, citing debunked far-right legal theories. This assault on democracy should be a national scandal.

commondreams.org'This Should Make Your Blood Boil': Top NC Court Blocks Certification of Democratic Justice's Win | Common DreamsRepublicans on the North Carolina Supreme Court are under fire for blocking certification of incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs' November victory to review GOP challenger Jefferson Griffin's…

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Chris Murphy: "I read the headlines about the Liz Cheney criminal referral and almost every single one of them in mainstream media played this straight as if it was a normal function of legislative power, instead of telling the truth, which is that this is made up out of thin air."

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Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved. We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.

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If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

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If you've got to be the bloke in a rubber dinosaur suit you want to be the one in THE rubber dinosaur suit. 70 years old and still the Kaiju King. 1954. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #godzilla #filmsky #kaiju #mutantfam #horrorfam #horrorsky

I'm at the old house packing for a few hours. Electrical work being done at new house. I wish I could get my heart happy again, but the air is too heavy. The future was so bright and now it feels like mud. I can't be the only one. :'(

Have been keeping busy trying new techniques and building my ephemera stash for journal making. Recently learned about #InkBoxCards through a junk journaling group swap. Loved my results for both the simple neutral/diecut prompt and the spring prompt. Some went into swap ;)

I have to move to a new phone. How do I get Bluesky on the new phone? I came here through a link invite, so unsure how to keep my account as I move to a new device. Is there a place for #support?

Last of the cards I did for the current #ATC swap. This time with distress ink sprays, watercolor markers, and shimmery watercolor paints. The rubber stamped pumpkin was a block I found at Goodwill for $2 years ago.

Trying my first post here. Have been playing with making some ATCs with a Halloween theme. Stamps with ink and acrylic paint. Added shimmer watercolors and watercolor markers, acrylic for details, and a touch of gel pen. ;)

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