An American Voter

An American Voter

@roxyeaw.bsky.social

My father’s daughter. Dog lover. Art Major University of Tampa. Reader of banned books. Hooked on politics. Indivisible! Mother of two children. Related to John Steinbeck.

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Today I woke thinking about my daughter. Carlin is 35. One of her favorite movies is Girl With The Dragon Tattoo so I watched it . She was always shy but when she looked up to Lizbeth I knew she was getting stronger and ultimately she’d be ok.

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Providing school children with free meals is better than posting The Ten Commandments and then ignoring their hunger.

I was watching my favorite characters from The Game of Thrones. I enjoyed spunky Bella Ramsey. We share the same birthday September 25, me in 1952. We also share being on the spectrum as well. Speech was delayed for me but I taught myself to read at 4 and have an IQ of 188. We shock and amaze.

I always read the ball caps on vets when I see them out and about. There are mostly Vietnam, and current wars. I appreciate their service as I never served due to balance issues making impossible to fly by instrument. My brother was a coward and never tried to serve. Prior to Vietnam my family was

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Trans rights are human rights. This spring we lost our young trans niece. She was a beautiful, kind (so very kind), gentle, intelligent soul with many gifts. This is my little memory area for her. I hope one day we live in a world where we don't lose young LGBTQ people to bigotry and hate.

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At one point in my life I was associated with managers from lazyboy company. They freely told jokes about AIDS patients, gay men, etc. I am not someone to allow that sort of behavior be ignored. I spoke out against that behavior and there was pressure on my husband to divorce me.

When trump said all those things about Teddy Roosevelt I thought why? TR believed in the equal opportunity for all men. Then I watched the Teddy Roosevelt special on Netflix. I never realized he acted against Black interests in several occasions. I’m sure trump found the bad side of TR.

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I don’t mind paying taxes when they pay for roads and schools and healthcare and libraries and post offices and fire services. I don’t like paying taxes when they pay for Trump enrichment schemes or golden ballrooms or bombs to drop on girls’ schools.

The Supreme Court decides on the 14th ammendment today. I pray they do the right thing. Our Founding Fathers meant for everyone born in the US to be citizens should they choose.