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Progressive Dem 🇺🇦 BlueAF Liberal Sarcasm.• NeverTrumper Educator • Historian• DNA• PEACE • She/Her•#Prochoice Gen X•Welcome Immigrants 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽 #safespace 🌈 Political Disclaimer Needed Here! Exercising free speech. For free! #GoodTrouble

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · Apr 16

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

I love this musical 🎶

This is what made America unique and special. It gave purpose with determination and pride.

We began as a melting pot.

I love researching the immigrants from my own family line. We forget how hard they worked.

For us.

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

Since 1781

“Immigrants.

We get the job done.”

- Hamilton Musical

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 6d

Anne Frank’s family was denied a US visa.

#repeatinghistory

Documents uncovered in 2007 revealed that Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank, desperately attempted to emigrate with his family to the United States.

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 21d

#RepeatingHistory

I miss the olden days when people turned off the show if they didn’t like who was on.

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 21d

I won’t cherry pick his words but there’s this…

One of his last wishes was that he wanted the Epstein files released.

I peacefully support Erika in that wish to honor her slain husband.

Just saying.

Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 21d

This will be history one day.

The choice we have now of how we handle FREEDOM OF SPEECH will determine the level of civilization our children know.

I despise violence and think there can be peace in debating. YOUR VOTE is what will make a difference.

Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 21d

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 22d

Sharing a book on my list to read:

Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 22d

“We speak truth in a time when our nation’s president weaponizes political power to whitewash our history of slavery & Jim Crow by distorting stories of triumph over adversity, silencing songs of resistance & punishing institutions that foster diversity,equity & inclusion,” Rev Amanda Hendler-Voss

RNS @rns.org · 22d

First Congregational United Church of Christ dedicated six recently installed stained-glass panels, titled “Forever in the Path,” on Sunday (Sept. 14).
religionnews.com/2025/09/16/p...

Predominantly white church dedicates memorial to the enslaved who worked on its land

(RNS) — ‘‘Forever in the Path’ calls us to renew our covenant to seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly with our God,’ said the church’s pastor.

religionnews.com

Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 22d

@moberzan.bsky.social sending a cheerful wave of solidarity your way a we all struggle through another day of difficult news. 🌊🌊

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 22d

“It’s important … to bring the Black story into a sacred space,” she said upon learning of the project at First Congregational UCC. “What it’s saying is that this story is God’s story, and God’s story is found in this story. And these people, like any other people, are sacred.” #DC

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 22d

We have a responsibility to not forget or whitewash the past.

To Read List: “Black Hands, White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America,” by Harrison

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 22d

MAKE A DIFFERENCE
means
BEING DIFFERENT

religionnews.com/2025/09/16/p...

“A predominantly white church that sought to learn about its racial history has now dedicated a memorial to the enslaved people who once worked on the building’s land in downtown Washington, D.C.”
#goodtrouble in #DC

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 28d

2013 Sci-fi Film: “Elysium” Film Overpopulation & Immigration on STARZ 👍🏼

Hispanics are illustrated as stereotyped criminals, or ex-criminal, similar to modern America’s WaLL mentality.

In “Elysium” they try desperately to go to Elysium no matter the cost, even willing to be illegal immigrants.

Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 28d

The earliest phases of the Holocaust did not happen in Germany. It happened in Lithuania with the collaboration of Lithuanians.

The enthusiastic support of hundreds of thousands of normal citizens enabled the nazi regime to be seen as “Liberators.”

Sept 9, 1941

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 28d

www.britannica.com/topic/Einsat...

Einsatzgruppen units received orders to confiscate political & govt materials & to IDENTIFY and arrest political enemies, including Jews, Freemasons, members of the Communist Party, religious leaders, & those SUSPECTED of political OPPOSITION to the Nazi regime.

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 28d

Luke Rankin, Senator SC thinks a road should be named after Kirk.

He chose the old county of Laurens, named after Slaver, Henry Laurens.

Laurens is also famous as the home of the, now closed, KKk Redneck Shop, where klan apparel was readily on view.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28d

Get to know the man you're eulogizing.
In his own words!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28d

Every word…

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 28d

The baby at the Home Depot is the best. 👏🏻

Diaper Diplomacy Unofficial Mirror @diaperdiplomacy-m.bsky.social · Sep 10

"Non-white US citizens, carrying US passports at all times."
‘Don’t leave home without it’ wasn’t just about credit cards?

Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 28d

You’re not wrong.

Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 28d

In 1913, the American public didn’t know it yet but we were secretly already involved in WWI.

#RepeatingHistory

It’s 2025, the American public doesn’t realize it yet but *cough* *cough*

Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 28d

Maybe we will find the lost Epstein Files in one of these buildings.

Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 28d

You know that feeling you get when you lose something important?

Yeah.

Has anyone seen the Epstein Filea?

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 28d

Pope Leo spoke about "the continuously wider gap between the income levels of the working class and the money that the wealthiest receive."

Pope Leo criticizes Elon Musk's huge pay offer: "We are in big trouble"

www.newsweek.com

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Mocking Byrd 🌊 @mockingbyrd.bsky.social · 28d

I wasn’t prepared the day I left work, a first grade classroom, where all the kids anxiously practiced for an “Active Shooter Dill” only to go to Wal Mart on the way home and stand in line beside a man with an exposed holstered gun!

Our society is bassakwards.

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