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@alexvanderveur.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈I am a Gay Man, He/Him. I oppose war. I oppose genocide. I oppose ethnic cleansing. I fight for ⚖️ #EqualJustice and 🏳️‍🌈 #EqualRights. As the Regime commits Crimes against Humanity around the world, I stand with our allies! 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇵🇸💙🇺🇸💔

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If you are an American citizen I *urge* you to fulfill your civic duty and take a stand against the fascist takeover of our Democratic Republic.❌👑

Not *just* protests. Boycotts, aid to victims, phone calls, etc.

Above all else *ALWAYS* speak truth when you hear Fascist propaganda.

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 20h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

#MedicareForAll

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 11h

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🌹Weegie 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 11h

What we're fighting for could not be more obvious.
What's at stake are our lives or those of our loved ones.
It doesn't end until we win.

Social media post:
Joshua Reed Eakle @JoshEakle
Healthy societies don't
lionize vigilante killers.

Ali A Olomi
@aaolomi
a healthy society doesn't let
people die because they
can't afford their insulin

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 11h

Just to be clear, racist dog murderer Kristi Noem once accused President Biden of trying to federalize the National Guard which is EXACTLY what the totalitarian orange felon is doing by making them his personal army to instill chaos and promote fear/violence. Fuck fascism.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11h

I dunno, seems okay.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you @morgfair.bsky.social for dropping your VOTE YES on Prop 50 Ballot in the box!

CA, Don’t Forget to get Your Ballots in the box by Election Day, Tuesday November 4th!
#OnMyWalk

Photo of Morgan Fairchild putting her CA vote yes on Prop 50 ballot in the drop box

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 3d

I think we know why Trump has buried the Epstein Files

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@ericswalwell.bsky.social Great! Good to hear!💙

Now if you could please start openly calling them by the honest name of "Fascists", encouraging people to join the No Kings protests, and making clear there will be Nuremberg-like trials for all the committers of these atrocities, that would be great.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 12h

We’re not blinking. Democrats are standing strong for the American people and their access to affordable healthcare. We will not back down.

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🩸Republican congress funded ICE at the cost of human lives. They could stop the atrocities at anytime. There are million of US citizens who are complicit for giving the fascists the power to do this, and for continuing to support or affiliate with them in any way.

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 12h

Remember, decent people like us were traumatized seeing infants and children in cages forced to appear in court alone while separated from their parents.

America voted for a second, more violent and inhumane term.

America voted for this.

Stop pretending ICE just happened out of thin air.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 12h

Posting once a week for Mike and the PEDO ENABLERS ......

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From the Declaration of Independence:

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

This Is Fascism

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Mother Frog Slut // Steward of Giant Reptiles @toadcialism.bsky.social · 12h

It brings me so much freaking joy that frogs are being reclaimed as an antifascist symbol

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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 12h

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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He *literally* said he wants them in trauma. Vought deserves life in prison starting long ago.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12h

Russell Vought has stated he wants them all insecure and in a constant state of panic.

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12h

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h

"When subsidies disappear, and a lot of these people find that their health insurance is suddenly unaffordable, you’re not going to have very many of them saying, 'It’s OK, because at least we’ve kept those illegal aliens from going to the emergency room.' They’re going to scream bloody murder."

Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene Tirade Wrecks Trump Shutdown Stance

As Greene admits the GOP is screwing the country on health care, a leading congressional scholar explains how Greene accidentally revealed the surprising weakness of Trump’s position in the shutdown standoff.

trib.al

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 12h

The President is a r*pist.

We should never stop being pissed off about this.

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 12h

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12h

Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries recording music on SoundCloud to being one of the most streamed artists in the world. He embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos that Republicans say should make them natural conservatives. Instead they are crashing out on him.

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