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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 19h

Volunteer Call Post
Join a nationwide team to help track the scale of the No Kings Day on Saturday, October 18! Interested?
Email [email protected] to reserve your time and platform! Training & support provided, no prior experience needed. Let’s make No Kings Day count, together

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 19h

💯 The states have never been united and for the good of the majority of citizens, we’ve got to stop pretending that we are.

Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 19h

JFC when have the states ever been united and how do we get out of this 200+ years cycle of abuse with racist psychos.

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 2d

Ah huh.

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'Confused' and 'befuddled' Trump told to sit back down because it wasn’t his turn to speak

President Donald Trump seemed confused at the Israeli parliament Monday, where he was slated to give a speech celebrating the release of the 20 surviving hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, re...

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 3d

For instance. And this report was released 2 years ago. www.ndrn.org/resource/new...

New report details how private equity’s stranglehold on medical equipment industry hurts people with disabilities - NDRN

In recent years, private equity (PE) firms have aggressively sought to acquire and control segments of the healthcare industry.

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 4d

“But my revenge will come.”

Hamlet [IV, 7]

#ShakespeareSunday

#BlackSails
Toby Stephens

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 6d

“For my friends, everything…,” General Oscar Benavides, former dictator of Peru.

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Sen. Whitehouse: "Trump is Moving Money from Pockets of Normal Americans to Fossil Fuel Megadonors"

YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 9d

Oh so he knows what he’s doing is anti-American.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 11d

Literacy is much more than the ability to read. Literacy is what results from repeatedly exercising that skill with a wide range of books.

Learning. Empathy.

A broader understanding of the world and the people in it.

Alabama's state library board seems hostile to literacy | Alabama Reflector

The Alabama Legislature is trying to raise reading scores as the Alabama Public Library Service is trying to limit what you can read.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 11d

Sorry, but I just have to say this. Hard to believe it is an incomplete list. Headline from NYT- Content from me and maybe that is the way it should be.

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 14d

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Lawrence: Trump was 'on the verge of outright insanity' in deranged speech to military commanders

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Dalziel Ball ♿️🕉️♎️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦☮️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙 @dalziel71.bsky.social · 14d

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 15d

She wasn’t born yet when Reagan fired the air traffic controllers in 1981 but she’s right the GOP won’t negotiate.

Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 15d

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"25% of people think their jobs are socially meaningless." Rutger Bregman calls for "Moral Ambition"

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 15d

Yep we feel that, too.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 16d

The Library of Congress Veterans History Project is an archive that collects, preserves and makes accessible the histories of American veterans from WWI to the present.

Library of Congress Veterans History Project Workshop Coming to Stonechild College

(NMB) The Library of

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 22d

Yes. It’s all about labeling someone, like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was labeled a gang member so he could be arrested and jailed.

Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 23d

Well it’s not like we weren’t warned, we were. They bragged about it.

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AT @photofan9000.bsky.social · 25d

"As hush as death..."
Hamlet A2 S2
#ShakespeareSunday #Buffy

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Karen DenBleyker @kdneedles.bsky.social · 25d

What did the Russian whisper in your ear?
Love's Labour's Lost
#ShakespeareSunday

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 25d

The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur’d her moans,
Sing willow, willow, willow;

Othello 4.3.31-32

#ShakespeareSunday

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · 24d

“Make battery to our ears with the loud music.”

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

#ShakespeareSunday

Believe, 2013
Toby Stephens

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Lil @lil27.bsky.social · Sep 14

Sniffen Court Historic District on East 36 St in Manhattan, a mews built in 1863-1864. It consists of 10 two-story brick stables.

#SignsonSunday

📸 Crystal

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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 29d

🚨HOLY SHIT: The moment former CIA officer Joel Willett’s name surfaced as a possible Senate candidate, Tulsi Gabbard stripped his security clearance.

Why? Because of his story.

Joel served in the White House Situation Room - and is a candidate Trump’s circle fears the most.

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