Lynda Smith @lamsmithSWEDE

Ret. educator/Sci. #triplevaxed Fan of all things Nordic. Love children & music. Progressive! #resistance . #Nevertrump. #ProRoe #Indivisible BLUE Hoosier nordikfolk.com Chicagoland Joined January 2011

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FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale

a week ago

Last night, I told the kids it was bedtime. Like I always do Brush teeth, get your jammies on, pick a book. The usual drill. Then I heard giggling. The kind that makes you stop whatever you’re doing and smile. I looked out the window and there they were—in the backyard, barefoot, chasing fireflies. My first instinct? Tell them to come inside. It was already late. We were off schedule. Pajamas were gonna get dirty. Bugs, mud, all the chaos. But I didn’t say anything. I sat down on the porch. And I watched them. They were so happy. Just running around in the grass, trying to catch those little glowing dots like it was the most magical thing in the world. And honestly? It was kind of magical. At one point, my son came over, holding his hands together like a tiny treasure box. “I caught one,” he whispered. “But I’m gonna let it go. I think it likes flying better.” And just like that, I felt something shift. I’ve been so caught up lately—in routines, in making sure everything’s “on time,” in getting it all right. But watching them out there, I realized… not everything needs to be so structured. Not every night has to go exactly according to plan. Sometimes the best moments are the messy, unexpected ones. So we stayed out. Way past bedtime. Barefoot, covered in bug bites and joy. And you know what? They still went to sleep. They still woke up happy. But I went to bed different. Because chasing fireflies reminded me that childhood is short. And sometimes, it’s okay to pause the schedule and just live in the moment. Let them stay up. Let them run wild. Let the laundry wait. These are the nights we’ll all remember.

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Lynda Smith @lamsmithSWEDE

2 months ago

@BoyMeetsBurr @SarahWorkx Tacky

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Lynda Smith @lamsmithSWEDE

2 months ago

Dead?

Matthew Pinner @MattPinner_

2 months ago

What do you call someone who rides like THIS on the road? 🤯

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Lynda Smith @lamsmithSWEDE

2 months ago

313.🪐 @luvhuss

2 months ago

Only geniuses can solve this in 10 seconds. What do you think the answer is?

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Lynda Smith @lamsmithSWEDE

2 months ago

Bobbin in bobbin case from a sewing machine

Tuğçe yıldız @tugce190333

2 months ago

Babaannemin evini karıştırırken şöyle bir şey buldum. Ne olduğunu bilen var mı? 👀 Resmen hipnotize edici bir tasarımı var.🤔

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OBAMA_2028 🚜 🇺🇦 #8647 🇺🇸 so says alice @yoyobaba

3 months ago

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Lynda Smith @lamsmithSWEDE

3 months ago

@tugce190333 A potato

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Jeff Leach @leachfortexas

3 months ago

This is Adam Hoffman. He repeatedly raped a Texas boy — for nearly three years — dozens and dozens of times. Tomorrow morning, May 25th 2026, he will be released from McLennan County Jail after spending just a few weeks there. He will not be required to register as a sex offender. And very soon he’ll be allowed to practice law again. A real and dangerous predator — a present threat to Texas children — will be as free as you and me. A slap on his wrist and a spit in the face to his victim. Why?! How?! Because that’s the deal he made with Ken Paxton. Vote accordingly.

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💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney

3 months ago

Would you support a boycott of CBS? YES or NO? ✋

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RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5

3 months ago

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it. This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect. "Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. 'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth." - Tony Locke

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The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller

3 months ago

SEN. TILLIS (R): “These people don't deserve restitution. Many of them deserve to be in prison. This is just stupid on stilts. Republicans need to speak up. This is beyond the pale… This is bad policy, bad timing, bad politics.” (H/T @Acyn)

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CjMtheIrish🍀 @CjMfdt

3 months ago

CBS bowed to Trump. So we respond.

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Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist

3 months ago

Marco Rubio: “Cuba is a national security threat to the US.” This is a blatant lie to manufacture consent for an invasion of Cuba. Cuba is not a threat to the US. The US is the one who is a threat to Cuba as it has strangled the island for decades with an unnecessary embargo.

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Donk Media ♻️™ @donkoclock

3 months ago

President Biden sent a heartfelt message to Stephen Colbert “For years, he brought wit, heart, and honesty to late-night television. America could always count on a laugh — and sometimes a much-needed reality check.” A beautiful tribute from Joe 💙 Drop a 💙 for 46 & Colbert

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jezz @JezziiB

3 months ago

99 years is the amount of prison time a doctor in Alabama will receive if they perform an abortion. 6 months is the amount of prison time you will receive if you rape an unconscious girl next to a dumpster. Wake up.

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Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT

3 months ago

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…

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Jake Justice @jakecobb

3 months ago

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was. Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.