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Donna Spencer šŸ”„šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦ šŸ‰

@donnaspencer.bsky.social

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Language, music, lefty politics and theology, Appalachia, road trips, cocktails, pie, and yarn. Knoxville, Tennessee. she/her

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@donnaspencer.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:48 PM

Thankful for the chance to hear @bradleyonishi.bsky.social speak this afternoon and score a copy his new book, American Caesar. It's important work, tracing out forces of religion and tech behind a dark political agenda. It would be a great dystopian novel, but sadly it's reality.

Author and podcaster Brad Onishi speaks from behind a lectern.
@brian-goldstone.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:43 PMReposted by @donnaspencer.bsky.social

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

@jan-readsalot.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:50 PMReposted by @donnaspencer.bsky.social

Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.

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@jaywillis.netOct 1, 2026, 2:20 AMReposted by @donnaspencer.bsky.social

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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@donnaspencer.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 2:45 PM

I hate hearing someone I admired spouting such absolute misogynistic BS. Women musicians spent decades bashing their heads against the brick wall of an industry that begrudged them contracts, air time and concert bookings, and this snide dismissal of that hard-earned progress is beyond infuriating.

@donnaspencer.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 2:07 AM

How do you commit fraud by buying something and not using it?

@donnaspencer.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 3:23 AM

If anybody sees my old Snoopy bong in there, please let me know.

@donnaspencer.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 7:22 PM

Good point—I should have specified other staples. And I’m an editor so I presumably know better.

@donnaspencer.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:29 PM

I don’t get groceries there but buy a ton of stuff from them online, especially staples like vitamins & OTC medication. You can buy most things without even being a member.

@donnaspencer.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 3:04 PM

Good luck finding a recipe!

@mirandayaver.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 12:48 PMReposted by @donnaspencer.bsky.social

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@donnaspencer.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 12:51 PM

Maria Muldaur

@donnaspencer.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 4:33 AM

My aunt’s potato salad recipe requires candied dill pickles, which have all but vanished. Sweet gherkins are a pale sub but the closest thing I’ve found.

@donnaspencer.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 8:11 PM

Spectacular work!

@rbreich.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 11:00 PMReposted by @donnaspencer.bsky.social

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

@gtconway.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 8:43 PMReposted by @donnaspencer.bsky.social

I'm old enough to remember that time a Democratic senate, in the middle of a Democratic president's reelection campaign, ordered a bipartisan investigation of the president's brother's receipt of $200,000 from the Libyan government.

{gift link: www.nytimes.com/1980/07/25/a...

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@gillianbrockell.comSep 14, 2026, 4:20 PMReposted by @donnaspencer.bsky.social

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

MMelissa Ryan@melissaryan.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 2:12 PM

America is being run by monsters. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

nbcnews.comDHS watchdog finds immigrants held at ā€˜Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone boothsThe cages, called ā€œcalming areas,ā€ were used for detainees to ā€œreflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,ā€ according to the inspector ...
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@evanurquhart.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 12:01 AMReposted by @donnaspencer.bsky.social

If you're trying to propose to people with trans children in their lives that their lives are a worthwhile sacrifice for other Democratic priorities, consider whether you'd be convinced that your children should be sacrificed for the greater good of someone else's family.

@servethe901.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 1:27 AMReposted by @donnaspencer.bsky.social

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

@jamiesmart.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 2:59 PMReposted by @donnaspencer.bsky.social

Getting a bit tired of very rich actors and directors saying ā€˜AI is here we have to learn how to use it’ instead of ā€˜I am wealthy enough to dedicate myself only to projects which employ talented human beings because anything else is an existential threat to human storytelling’

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