Patchouli Girl

Patchouli Girl

@patchouligirl.bsky.social

California girl. Former school district CFO and current hop farmer. “Love owns us all, time owns us all, life owns us all, but the world doesn't own me.” Fair Warning-Todd Rundgren DM=Block

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The sickness within billionaires is deep. @peta.org

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

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Happy International Cat Day…everyday! This is Joey, a former community cat that we used to feed outside but is now with us inside in her forever home. 🐾 #internationalcatday #caturday

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The Bondi style is vintage fascist rhetoric. Never respond to questions and instead hurl baseless accusations at the questioner. Also state over and again that the acts and decisions of the Leader may never be questioned. This comports with a political theory, but it's not democracy.

Since we’re now using might over right, can I gently suggest that countries holding US treasuries threaten to dump them unless the US impeaches and removes Trump and his Cabinet from office?

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Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Now is the time to read these books. You’ll better understand what & who we need to fight for in our society. #Booksky

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

And today, another generous, deeply thoughtful review of There Is No Place for Us: "One way of looking at the book is to see it as the fruit of a series of extraordinary journalistic acts of seeing… You may well be left in fury.”

Plenty of cities give various breaks to businesses to lure them in but won’t extend similar benefits to residents seeking housing. At the very least we need rent control, rent increase caps, tenant unions, and social housing. #SocialHousing

One reason we need a massive amount of new social housing is that as investors take ever more control of California's housing stock they can increase rental prices ever more in order to extract as much of our wealth as possible. That is why the rent is too damn high! #FreeTheBear #SocialHousing

Media, PLEASE stop tying rioters to protesters. Protestors are exercising their First Amendment rights through speech and marches. Protests are not escalating, they’re increasing. ICE and rioters are escalating—NOT PROTESTERS! JFC #ICEProtests

Our kids and grandkids have been growing up in the absolute shittiest of times. The unchallenged open corruption of this administration and lack of empathy for the people in this nation will alter their understanding of the purpose of a government. We’ve got to clean this mess up. #revolt

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Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is *a crime*. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/

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If you live in #California, please consider staying here for your next vacation! It will help our hospitality workers make up for the dramatic shortfall in international visitors we will get under the Trump regime because of the maniac #ICE kidnapping squads. Please #StayInCalifornia! #AbolishICE

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"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement." B. F. Skinner, born on this day in 1904

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What is wrong with giving a new leader a chance? A new approach, a fresh approach. Someone who has integrity, leadership skills, represents a key state, has guts and the confidence of the base. Time to put ego aside and screw seniority. This is my nominee.

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Some of us have been saying this since 2020 and even before: Dems should make corruption *the* central issue in US politics and public life and go on the offensive against GOP/MAGA/Trump transparent and hypocritical corruption and grifting. Most voters hate corruption.