Sara Kruger
@saralkruger.bsky.social
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I was thrilled to be featured on @saralkruger.bsky.social's excellent PB First Lines blog with the journey of THE DOG WHO SAVED THE BEES (words by me, art by @davidhohn.bsky.social, published by Sleeping Bear Press). My first line changed drastically! skruger.substack.com/p/pb-first-l... #kidlit
really does feel like if we can cyberbully the House into passing changes on the shit they openly hate and get it kicked back upstairs again there’s a chance it might not survive the Senate a second time if you live in a GOP state it’s time to ruin a House rep’s life
The package now goes to the House who is expected to vote on it this week. Any changes to the bill in the House will force the Senate to take up the bill again. The current bill as written raises the debt limit by $5 trillion.
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PB First Lines June 2025 Edition
Featuring Cynthia Mackey and If A Bumblebee Lands on Your Toe
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THIS is what we want when we ask our representatives to "do something." Don't acquiesce, don't give up easily, don't try to make deals. Fight, stall, delay, make it difficult for the fascists. THANK YOU for realizing this and actually doing something.
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
Stand and turn all backs to Trump. Or walk out once he starts talking.
If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?
we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance moved to betray a...
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The term that makes sense to me is "evangelical capitalists." They believe if you can afford something you deserve it no matter how you got the money and if you can't buy it you don't deserve it, even food & medicine, no matter what external forces prevent you from having the money.
"It is no exaggeration to say this will kill people—mainly people who are elderly, disabled and/or poor. Society’s most vulnerable sit in the crosshairs of our nation’s wealthiest people who have absolutely everything, but somehow always want more."
Go to Google Search "Gulf of Mexico" Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" Choose "Send feedback" Click "Gulf of America" Click "Inaccurate content" Click "Incorrect" Tell Google the correct name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...
Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia
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I want them to be like Mitch McConnell in Obama's 2nd term. They all witnessed it. It's a great playbook for being a horribly annoying pain in the ass roadblock. It's not rocket science. I'm not asking them to break the law. I'm asking them to be as good as him at using the rulebook to obstruct.
He's in his final term, constitutionally. Act like it. Treat him like the lame duck he is instead of letting him think he's going to finagle his way into a third term with SCOTUS's help, assuming he doesn't choke on Big Mac first
Honestly don't understand why Congressional Dems aren't raising hell about everything. OMG Why are they acting with so much decorum?
Honestly don't understand why Congressional Dems aren't raising hell all day every day about Elon Musk's role in this administration. Musk's ouster should be the floor for any cooperation on anything.
Pew Research estimates that 79% of hetero married women change their surname on marriage. Approx 69 mil American women no longer have a birth certificate that matches their legal name -- and that would, under this bill, disqualify them from voting. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
About eight-in-ten women in opposite-sex marriages say they took their husband’s last name
Younger women, women with a postgraduate degree and Democratic women are more likely to keep their last name after marriage.
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Hey, America! Tired of voting? The GOP's SAVE Act is for you. In an eye-opening new CAP report, @gbedekovics.bsky.social & @sydkneeb.bsky.social show how the bill would disenfranchise millions of Americans. Hit hardest would be 69 million (largely Republican!) women who took their spouses' names.
Please, PLEASE call your senators and urge them to oppose RFK Jr.'s nomination. You may think public health doesn't impact you (which would be impressive five years into a global pandemic), but it does, and people will die if he's confirmed.
I know I'm "lucky" to live in a blue state where my reps largely align with my voting, but I'm imploring those who have GOP reps to call. As craven as that party is, they can't want an end to democracy as we know it b/c that means an end to their jobs and power, and we know they are self-serving.
Call script:
My family of four took a trip to Italy last fall and I finally wrote a little blog post about what we did right =) savoringeverymoment.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/f...
Family Trip to Italy 2024: What We Did Well and Not So Well
WHAT WE DID WELL In October 2024, we took a family trip to Italy, a trip over a year in the planning. It was amazing. We did (almost) everything we planned to do, and we had a ton of fun. Looking b…
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Excited to feature @jpuglow.bsky.social on PB First Lines this month! Pre-order her book Stuck! skruger.substack.com/p/pb-first-l...
PB First Lines January 2025 Edition
Featuring Joyce Uglow and STUCK! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits
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I am only 2K followers away from surpassing my old twitter following at 42K- if that happens, bsky will be my biggest platform ever. o_o