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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 12h

The museums are being shutdown.
Are we great yet?
Everyone’s being fired.
Are we great yet?
Food is rotting in our fields.
Are we great yet?
The market’s crashing greatly.
Diseases are now running rampant.
At what point aren’t we great?
Our military’s in line at food banks.
So super great.

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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 2h

GET IT?

GOT IT.

GOOD.

ANTIFA-SCIST

Pay attention MAGA!!!

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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My Giddy Aunt (Australia) @mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 22h

Watching the #Portland posts atm and reminds me of Murdoch vs Melbourne and Dan when living in Vic during lockdown. Remember Rachel Baxendale and Sophie Elsworth, and then the time Peta Cretin arrived to "fix it"?
And Leigh Sales - that was a joke. #auspol #DanStans
Before twitter went to the dogs.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 14h

Fascism doesn’t arrive with fanfare or sudden violence. It creeps in quietly, through lies, fear, & apathy, eroding rights, silencing dissent, & consolidating power until resistance seems impossible. History's shown what happens when people wait too long to act. The cost of silence is always freedom

📢 The Courage of Ordinary People Stops Fascism — and It Starts with Us

Fascism rises when people stay silent. Join the movement for democracy—organize, speak out, and build people-powered resistance before it’s too late.

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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 2h

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

This is what it looks like when your community stands up.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 6h

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 13h

ICYMI

I’m flabbergasted. All roads lead to Albo and conflicts of interest.

Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 1d

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 6h

How to transmit energy from new generators across the vast distances of Qld & into the national grid? The Palaszczuk govt answer was the Copperstring project. Like the Abbott govt & NBN, you can imagine what the Crisafulli govt has now done to it. #qldpol reneweconomy.com.au/copperstring...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

Me to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Comey and James and (probably imminent) Bolton prosecutions

"It doesn’t matter what your politics are. If you say he’s stupid, which he is, if you say he is wrong, which he is, if you say he’s a criminal or sleezy, which he is ... then you’re his enemy.”

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Michele @mischef.bsky.social · 2h

So he came lightly dressed for the occasion.😱🤬

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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 8h

Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
search.app/3jttv tip in April interview in September . Why the delay

Former ACT politician suspended from role amid grooming charges

Former ACT attorney-general Gordon Ramsay has been suspended without pay from his role as CEO of the Cultural Facilities Corporation while he faces charges for grooming a teenager.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 8h

The joke is on Trump. The ethnic cleansing is simply being moved over to the West Bank.

Who in their right mind would believe the Israelis— under Benjamin Netanyahu—about *anything*?

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Linda Brown @lindabrownoz.bsky.social · 17h

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 1d

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Meme with a drawing of to people shaking hands. One hand being darker than the other. Wording is: "I'd rather live next door to someone who crossed a desert to become an American than an American who wouldn't cross the street to help a foreigner."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine that

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 15h

No wonder “no belief”/“atheism” is the fastest growing belief system. Religions and the many religious keep showing us they really don’t care for those most vulnerable.

Protect the most vulnerable. Protect children. Give no quarter to pedophiles.

Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 16h

Washington officials caved.

Priests who hear confessions of child abuse no longer have to report them to law enforcement.

Religious leaders fought to protect predators over children—and they got what they wanted.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/after-sett...

After settlement, Catholic priests in Washington can keep sex predators' confessions secret

Years of effort to safeguard children were undone by religious leaders who worship secrecy more than justice

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 8h

Wind and solar smash grid market share records, even after heavy curtailment, coal at new low reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-sol...

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Unknown Wanderer @unknownwanderer.bsky.social · 11h

Not just Bondi. Miller, Hoffman, all the people behind the Project 2025 aka the Heritage Foundation, all of them need to rot in prison.

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Michele @mischef.bsky.social · 8h

Freedom of speech is being canceled.
The things that warmed our hearts are being extinguished.
Can the Lady Re-Ignite what the US welcomed and accepted in the past.
2023-2025 have been ugly and dark.

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Travelling Canuck (part owner of Canada) 🍁 🇨🇦 @whatjusthappened.bsky.social · 11h

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The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

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Bob Van Brabant @bobvanbrabant.bsky.social · 11h

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