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Samhain Night

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Samhain Night @samhainnight.bsky.social · Feb 12

*taps mic*
DEFEATISM ACCOMPLISHES NOTHING!

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Chicago

sevedge @sevedge.bsky.social · 10h

photo of a Do Not Enter traffic sign on a Chicago street, but someone has altered it to say Do Not -Let ICE- Enter

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Samhain Night @samhainnight.bsky.social · 1h

Must have a very shallow keel to be anchored there

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thumper @denyingthumper.com · 15h

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 10h

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 10h

Several.

Here’s a couple

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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 11h

I need to see these arrests! Are they on tape???

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AnnTFa_LaLaLaLa @ann-t-social.bsky.social · 8h

No, they don't get it. And they won't until and unless they're in custody for extended periods of time, or really physically harmed with no recourse. They think they're "good", and "better" ~ they're not, they're fodder just like everyone else.

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

MAGA counter protesters are now getting angry because ICE is arresting them too and they’re slowly realizing they’re also being arrested for doing nothing.

Do they get it yet though? Prob not.

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Edge @czarbucks.bsky.social · 7h

I want to be on a grand jury. It would be great to be in a position to actually tell these mf'ers "no."

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 4h

Well done.

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Lumbering Soul @reallivedadbod.bsky.social · 6h

I second this. The last jury I served on, I had the honor of being the foreman in a DUI trial that involved a terrible CHP officer. Horrible, lazy investigative skills. Couldn’t believe the DA brought the case to trial. Ended up with a locked jury (8 to 4, not guilty). Judge dismissed the charges.

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PencilSketchy @brainspore.bsky.social · 7h

Yes and also: take part in public protests, attend city council meetings and town hall meetings and school board meetings. Democracy requires citizen participation at every level.

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Betsy Cazden @betsy-cazden.bsky.social · 6h

Good work!

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ramboorider.bsky.social @ramboorider.bsky.social · 7h

I was on my second jury last week. We convicted a guy soliciting a 14 year old girl for sex on Facebook. It was actually a decoy acct created by our local police. He went to meet her and met the cops…

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Angrywhitebitch @angrywhitebitch.bsky.social · 6h

There are 52K races in 26 that have to beg for donation scraps, volunteers and post card writing. Bridge protests are organized by local @indivisible.org s

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Betsy Cazden @betsy-cazden.bsky.social · 6h

Also: Get trained and serve as a poll worker. I've done it for years and we always need new people. I spend election day resolving issues like name or address changes, database errors, ID issues, provisional ballots -- and reassuring people we want every eligible voter to be able to vote.

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 4h

For text-oriented people, there's the Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nu...
There will be cases coming up where the facts don't support a guilty verdict anyway.

Jury nullification - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Betsy Cazden @betsy-cazden.bsky.social · 6h

For starters, you should do it and post it here and on other social media sites. I bet it would go viral. Do you start with William Penn's case?

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Brian Marron @brianmarron.bsky.social · 10h

Definitely. Would I be disbarred for setting up a GoFundMe to buy a 2-minute Super Bowl ad to teach about jury nullification, preferably hiring the South Park guys to handle the Schoolhouse Rock animation?

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Gary Gehman @glgehman.bsky.social · 11h

All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen.

But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 15h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Mckay @recorddude.bsky.social · 15h

A bigger problem might be I've seen this same behavior in ERs from professionals. Do people really think it is a simple choice? Even if it was (IT'S NOT), that is a hurting human who never wished for this! Don't know? DON'T JUDGE.

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simporis.bsky.social @simporis.bsky.social · 15h

Are they saying that if it was a drug overdose, the policy is to let someone die? Foaming at the mouth and soaked in his own urine, they left him there because they thought it was “his fault”. This is unconscionable.

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Joe @jlaprade.bsky.social · 16h

Cruelty as a leading principle.

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Patient Zero @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 16h

I can't get over that they went through with their bullshit drug intoxication training when an EMT on their first shift could detect signs of a major stroke.

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