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Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence

@zippyreturns.bsky.social

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Twitter refugee. 🫘Anger and sadness after the realizations about 1/2 the people in our country, has forever changed me. But after 17 full Ironmans & 60+ marathons, I will endure. “They broke the wrong parts of me.They broke my wings but forgot I had claws"

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Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence @zippyreturns.bsky.social · Apr 3

#RESIST #Trumpcession
#CongressDoYourJob

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Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence @zippyreturns.bsky.social · 7h

If only he cared. He and his cronies are going to do their best to either prevent the midterms or cheat. He now rules with impunity and as long as the people that hate him are the ones that don't matter to him, it wont change his behavior. 🤬 #Hedoesntcare

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#BlueStormComin1🌪️👊🔥🇺🇸 @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 2d

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Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence @zippyreturns.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if the grand jurors are being lied to or persuaded in alternative ways, in order to get indictments. Before you say they can’t do that, remember who we are dealing with and that they don’t follow the law but instead they break it as much as they’re allowed.

Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence @zippyreturns.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago puts on such a great marathon! I can’t imagine the runners having to deal with the added risk with the new fascist regime out of control goons in the streets. I hope the city can protect them. 🤦‍♀️🙁

Anne Grete (GoogeliArt) 🦋💙PD @googeliart.bsky.social · 3d

“We’ve gotten word that roughly 3,000 runners from Mexico have signed up for this marathon, and I want all of them to come,” Mayor B Johnson of Chicago said on Tuesday. “I believe the best way in which we can demonstrate resistance is not bending the knee to tyranny.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

New Race-Day Worry for the Chicago Marathon: Immigration Enforcement

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Colleen Paige @colleenpaige.bsky.social · 3d

👏👏👏

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Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence @zippyreturns.bsky.social · 2d

Hope you have a good day too Tamera!

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 3d

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 2d

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 3d

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence @zippyreturns.bsky.social · 3d

Ok that’s a good start, now what?

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Tamera Wise @wisewonders.bsky.social · 3d

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Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence @zippyreturns.bsky.social · 4d

JFC this has to stop!

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s video of the incident

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#BlueStormComin1🌪️👊🔥🇺🇸 @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 4d

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Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence @zippyreturns.bsky.social · 4d

My mom used to tell me, “people treat you the way you let them.” Bondi disregards them and their constitutional powers and they let her. Until someone shows these belligerent asshats reciprocal “shock and awful” they will continue to run us and the Constitution over. #ContemptOfCongress

Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence @zippyreturns.bsky.social · 4d

When they find out ICE officers did this, breaking the law, committing a felony, can they do anything? It’s not like this is the first serious crime they’ve committed.

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Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence @zippyreturns.bsky.social · 4d

Why don’t they hold her in contempt? She hasn’t invoked the 5th, so isn’t she required to answer their questions? If not, what is the point of this?

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Zippyreturns - Resistance and Persistence @zippyreturns.bsky.social · 4d

Haven’t all of these hearings just become an opportunity for Trump cabinet members to demonstrate their distain for the Constitution, disrespect for Congress and sense of limitless impunity. They’re all without exception awful people and letting them parade their awfulness doesn’t seem helpful.

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JustJeanie💙🥂💙 @jeaniec135.bsky.social · 4d

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s fast forward to when these ICE fuckers are all on trial for their crimes against humanity and the Constitution.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5d

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?