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mpchaplin.bsky.social
I am a mom, a wife, and a pharmacist
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All I am saying is that I'm going to be able to look my baby girl in the eye and say I wasn't a fascist bootlicking scumbag who cheered for human beings being disappeared without due process.

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ABC News fired reporter Terry Moran for criticizing Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, proving once again that corporate media is rudderless, cowardly and utterly complicit in enabling fascism.

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Secretly proud he's a hockey fan. Even if it's the Kings.

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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them

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I also had to research how to get prescriptions from Canada for a friend of the family who can't afford apixaban in the US. I am pretty sure they voted GOP. Boy did I want to lecture them but instead I sent them the cipa.com site and wished them luck. I might check in with them before midterms...

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My husband and I had a great night out at an Irish pub with some live music. The bartender mentioned being a libertarian at one point and it took a supreme amount of effort for me not to say, "Oh honey, you're so young. Give it some time and you'll become a socialist too."

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'I'll put something on in the background while I read...' *chooses something in Spanish that requires subtitles* "Doh!"

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When Nashville SC defeated Charlotte FC on Saturday, the supporters section lacked its usual verve and had visible gaps throughout the risers. The reason was explained in a pair of large white banners. No estamos todos aquí. We are not all here. www.nytimes.com/athletic/634...

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It’s been a hell of a journey from “Bill Clinton needs to go to prison because he saw Loretta Lynch on the tarmac” to “it’s not a bribe if you tell everyone you took it“

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I feel thoroughly exhausted. It wasn't a particularly hard week at work. I have been in a boot with tendonitis in my right foot so there's that. And yet the level of tired seems disproportionate. And then I remember that my country is tearing apart families with no due process and it makes sense.

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On tomorrow’s This Guy Sucked, @ceaubin.bsky.social and I talk Nazis

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Go back in time to kill Hitler or publish 'Narcissistic, Cruel and Dangerous Administrations for Dummies' 🤔

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My first thought upon my husband telling me (former Catholic) that the Pope had died was "JD Vance killed the Pope". And the entire internet had my back.

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In the book I'm reading "an empire can only stand on three legs: subjugation, desperation and ignorance." *looks at camera*

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The life of a BMW owner: "Everything is covered under your manufacturer and extended warranty, maam. It will be $450 dollars" Wut?

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From the Combahee River Collective Statement (a manifesto of sorts of Black feminists): "One issue that is of major concern to us and that we have begun to publicly address is racism in the white women's movement." I am beginning to wonder if anything ever changes...

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Were they betting none of us knew what tariffs were or how to Google them?

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