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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 16h

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13h

It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history.

She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 15h

“When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.” – Fannie Lou Hamer

#oneness #community #values #votingrights

Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 2d

“Imagine a country whose citizens—maybe even its leaders—are brave, calm, and open towards each other; a country whose people realize that all human beings belong together as one family and must act accordingly.”
- BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST
#kindness #oneness #community

Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 2d

“Kevin O’Leary, North Dakota Wonder Fund CEO, accused of fraud in investment lawsuit”
#SharkTank

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Kevin O’Leary, North Dakota Wonder Fund CEO, accused of fraud in investment lawsuit

The suit alleges Wonder Fund officials were complicit in misrepresenting HerdDogg to the North Dakota state government and the federal government.

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 3d

“Knowingly or not, all of us are embarked on a common journey in consciousness whose goal is our full awakening to unity.”
~ Anna Lemkov

#journey #oneness #community #interbeing

Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 4d

“…There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places and desecrated places….”

~ Wendell Berry
#mindfulness #spirit #sacredplaces #nature

Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 5d

“To acknowledge and cross a new threshold is always a challenge.…
“Whatever comes, the great sacrament of life will remain faithful to us, blessing us always with visible signs of invisible grace. We merely need to trust.”

— John O’Donohue, “To Bless the Space Between Us”

#thresholds #halloween

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 6d

Because this Adminstration and all of its agencies and departments are headed by crooks, liars and bigots.

Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 6d

“We who easily grow apart from the world are returned to the great store of life all around us…. There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.”

- Linda Hogan, Chickasaw poet
#oneness

Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 11d

“Trump is determined to resurrect the pre–New Deal system in the United States and refuses to entertain any notion that his vision will not work.”

@hcrichardson.bsky.social
#Trump
#NoKings
#Corruption
#Authoritarianism
#Fascism

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October 24, 2025

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has canceled House business again next week, meaning that over the last 17 weeks, the House of Representatives will have worked on Capitol Hill for just 20 days.

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 11d

“…Find someone who grows flowers in the darkest parts of you….”

- Zach Bryan
#love #serve #awaken

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 12d

Republican Freeloaders on vacation while America burns.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12d

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 13d

Great conversation about history, the Constitution, AI, the Tech Broligarchs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

@hasanminhaj.com

#Democracy
#AI
#SamAltman
#ElonMusk

Is The Constitution Cooked? with Jill Lepore

Podcast Episode · Hasan Minhaj Doesn't Know · 10/22/2025 · 48m

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 13d

Ditto Tariifs.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14d

If we had a functioning Congress, it would be requiring Trump to (1) Provide a complete list of all people/countries/corporations/mafia providing bribes, ur, “donations” for his tacky ballroom; and (2) An audited accounting of where all the money goes.

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 14d

The Alarming Depopulation of Appalachia's Coalfields: A Quarter Century of Projected Decline dailyyonder.com/the-alarming...

@dailyyonder.bsky.social
#RuralAmerica

The Alarming Depopulation of Appalachia's Coalfields: A Quarter Century of Projected Decline | The Daily Yonder

By 2050, entire counties across Appalachia face the loss of nearly half their populations in what demographers describe as an accelerating demographic

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14d

Families are already hanging by a thread, but the sad truth is it’s about to get a lot worse when SNAP benefits don’t go out in November.

It’s time to find our local food banks and help out with donations and volunteer hours if you are able.

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 15d

The more we learn about Trump’s shrewd negotiating skills while “sh***ing on our allies (like he does to Americans), the worse it gets.

Every time.

@cliffschecter.bsky.social

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The Cowardly Mouse from Queens Meets the Courageous Man from Kyiv

In a White House meeting dripping with humiliation, Trump scolded Ukraine’s wartime leader for refusing his Kremlin-inspired “peace plan” that would see Ukraine surrender

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 15d

“Empathy and nonseparation are the most fundamental aspects of loving-kindness. This is what we need to recognize as loving-kindness: a radical seeing of our nonseparateness, knowing our oneness, our indivisibility.”

— Sharon Salzberg

@lionsroarbuddhism #compassion #interdependence #community

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 16d

“Thoughts in Jail”

Prisoners are we….
I look down the long row Of gray-blanketed heaps. Under every heap a woman, Weak, sick, but determined, Twenty gray fortresses of determination.

— Katharine Rolston Fisher, 1871 – 1950
#womenssuffrage #protest #NoKingsDay #freedom #courage #history

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 17d

"Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change."
— Terry Tempest Williams

#NoKingsDay #community #together #courage #resilience

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 18d

Scary “terrorists” in DC at the No Kings Rally.
#NoKingsDay

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 18d

Party poopers.

#NoKingsDay

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Hap Connors @hapconnors.bsky.social · 19d

And Qatar, Trump’s new favorite place to receive bribes, is the home of the Hamas leader.