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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.

And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · 4d

THIS song need to be put in the face of every Christian Nationalist- incredible #joshm #viral #resistfascism #rejectchristiannationalism

Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Oct 1

Until the mother bears no burden, save
The precious one beneath her heart, until
God’s soil is rescued from the clutch of greed
And given back to labor, let no man
Call this the land of freed.

End

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Oct 1

Therefore I do protest against the boast
Of independence in this mighty land.
Call no chain strong, which holds one rusted link.
Call no land free, that holds one fettered slave.
Until the manacled slim wrists of babes
Are loosed to toss in childish sport and glee,
🧵

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Oct 1

Speech,thank God,
No vested power in this great day & land
Can gag or throttle. Press & voice may cry
Loud disapproval of existing ills;
May criticise oppression and condemn
The lawlessness of wealth-protecting laws
That let the children and childbearers toil
To purchase ease for idle millionaires.🧵

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Oct 1

“Protest”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men. The human race
Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised
Against injustice, ignorance, and lust,
The inquisition yet would serve the law,
And guillotines decide our least disputes.🧵

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Sep 11

Listen, he said himself his murder was a worthwhile tradeoff, so 🤷‍♀️ He also said empathy wasn't real & super lame, so 🤷‍♀️ For real, tho, should have had that done in the privacy of his own home so no one had to see it. That way it could just be forgotten, you know, the way Sen. Hortman was forgotten.

Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Aug 8

How the fuck is it only August
and also how the fuck is it already August.

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · May 27

I’m a DAR - my ancestor was a Major in the Revolutionary War, leading real patriots in New York, promoted to Colonel in 1776. He’s rolling in his grave at how vile an insult this current regime is (and its MAGAt followers) to those who have truly made the ultimate sacrifice for this country. 2/2

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · May 27

Memorial Day is coming to close. It’s always really gotten under my skin how many “patriots” use this day to amplify their ignorance, bigotry, and hypocrisy. This is a day to remember those who DIED fighting for the best of what this country represents. 1/

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · May 11

I didn’t think the MAGAts wanted there to be MORE gay men but 🤷🏼‍♀️.

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · May 7

Had to take a social media hiatus. If I burnout now, I won’t be able to antagonize fascists later. That would be disappointing.

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Apr 15

Dipshit Donnie got caught on a hot mic say the “home-grown ones” are next for the concentration cam— uh, prisons.
I’m curious what exactly they think will happen when they get a few thousand angry crust punks, political dissidents, and PhDs together within a confined area. 🧐

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Apr 11

I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Apr 10

Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Apr 11

Counting down the days until they cancel our NAGPRA grant. Or NAGPRA all together. Not a lot of hope right now in the museum sector.

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Apr 11

I’ve heard rumor the faculty union at University of Missouri in Columbia unanimously voted to demand the university stop complying with ICE.
#resist

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · Apr 4

🌹 57 years ago today, my mother was crying in the kitchen. Next to her was a newspaper.

🌹 Martin Luther King and been shot.

🌹 I was but a lad grabbing for a lunch bag before school, but I knew of King.

🌹 My mother's eyes told me I could never know enough about this great man.

🌹 Celebrate him.

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Apr 4

I just saw someone call Chappell Roan a “Temu Lady Gaga” and I’m absolutely dying 🤣😂

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Mar 11

Donold is now classifying protests at Tesla dealerships as ‘domestic terrorism.’

Protest at a Tesla dealership and you get arrested as a terrorist.

But attack the Capitol and you get a pardon.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Feb 27

Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks.

Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Feb 21

Did they hire a toddler to write this letter? Those are the most poorly constructed sentences I have read since my kid was in grade school.

The fascist base: “Ed Martin speaks reel good. He’s gone figur out what that lib threatening our lort for.”

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Feb 20

This is not how federal criminal investigations work.

—me (former federal criminal investigator)

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Feb 19

Joseph McCarthy was a fairly terrible person. But I have never in my life wanted to resurrect someone so bad and set them loose on their target - Russians and their assets.

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Feb 19

Totally qualified. Like for realz tho. #doomed

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Amanda Joy @ajshdesign.bsky.social · Feb 19

Trump has formally denounced the Constitution through this action. There is no ambiguity in the language of the document.

This IS fascism. /2