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Patti Bregman 🇨🇦🇺🇸 ♿ Hate crosses borders unless we stop it

@abilityrules.bsky.social

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I spent 25+ years working to expand the rights of people with disabilities and access to health care. I started in the early days of Canada's Charter I am a dual citizen. A rare genetic cond diagnosed after university made returning to the US impossible.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11d

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8d

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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deborahs82.bsky.social @deborahs82.bsky.social · 18d

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Patti Bregman 🇨🇦🇺🇸 ♿ Hate crosses borders unless we stop it @abilityrules.bsky.social · 2h

Money from their employers and their names. These masks may be hiding their identities from their employers, families and friends. Some look like they are at a fantasy camp for terrorists.

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 3d

So you get a judgement from one the ICE goons. What are you going to get? Maybe their crusty torn underwear.

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Patti Bregman 🇨🇦🇺🇸 ♿ Hate crosses borders unless we stop it @abilityrules.bsky.social · 3h

Each one of these decisions will make it harder for the appellate courts, including SCOTUS, to give Trump even more power. There are also going to give pause to some Republicans.

Patti Bregman 🇨🇦🇺🇸 ♿ Hate crosses borders unless we stop it @abilityrules.bsky.social · 3h

There is no single action that will defeat and defang Trump and his GOP lackeys in Congress. We need to use every possible activity. Using every form of pressure gives us the best opportunity to succeed.

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Jennifer Slack @jdslack.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder how many people in Nazi Germany said to their friends and neighbors; "I don't want to talk about politics. I don't do politics." Like so many Americans.

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The Real Zanetta @therealzanetta.bsky.social · 5h

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Good on YOU!!!
I keep saying...it's going to take White people having the courage to not give a fuck, to change this shit.
I bet the staff felt that you all had their backs.👊🏾

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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 5h

5/ That old geezer was a loudmouth bully who thought because everyone looked like him (old and white, minus the staff) that he could spout his nonsense because everyone agreed with him. He found out differently. Had he kept talking so would we have too. Old people with zero fucks left to give.

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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 5h

4/ And then all four of us in unison yelled trump is a fascist. That shut that loudmouth up. You didn’t hear a peep out of him after that. You could have heard a pin drop in that place. But the mostly Hispanic waitstaff were smiling. It felt good.

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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 5h

3/ So our friend says loudly, I know what a fascist is and then he asks me, do you know what a fascist is? To which I replied equally loudly, I know what a fascist is.

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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 5h

1/ Small acts of defiance…✊

Yesterday, my husband and I went out to dinner with our BFFs to a local diner. It was still early bird special time so you know it was filled with old white people.

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Jennifer Slack @jdslack.bsky.social · 4h

Good story. 🧵

Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 5h

1/ Small acts of defiance…✊

Yesterday, my husband and I went out to dinner with our BFFs to a local diner. It was still early bird special time so you know it was filled with old white people.

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Patti Bregman 🇨🇦🇺🇸 ♿ Hate crosses borders unless we stop it @abilityrules.bsky.social · 3h

This is fantastic. The message is clear and people can read it without distraction.

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 12h

This is definitely the definition of fascism.

#USDemocracy

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Patti Bregman 🇨🇦🇺🇸 ♿ Hate crosses borders unless we stop it @abilityrules.bsky.social · 3h

It will take lawyers willing to help. Lawyers working with criminal lawyers on high profile cases like George Floyd and Brianna Taylor won millions in civil suits. It's a lower burden of proof than criminal law.

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Bowpeeps @bowpeople.bsky.social · 2d

Somebody said at the beginning of this regime, tort lawsuits were the way to go.
I hope it works.

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Patti Bregman 🇨🇦🇺🇸 ♿ Hate crosses borders unless we stop it @abilityrules.bsky.social · 3h

Progress is always incremental. We need to accept every step forward as success.

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Some guy @internethuman.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, no where near perfect but given the situation i see why it wasn't addressed. At least we'll have SOMETHING, and if they don't comply with the order we can take that back to the judge too

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Mock Trump: he can't take it @lisajane.bsky.social · 2d

Someone on local progressive radio station panel said getting rid of the whole Constitution. is literally written in the 900 pp of project2025.

However, I have not yet seen any evidence for that.

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 1d

It's not written into it as a line item, it's the overarching goal.

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/proje...

Project 2025 Is a Blueprint for Canceling American Democracy

The Heritage Foundation’s document would gut the checks and balances that hold our republic together

www.sierraclub.org

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Patti Bregman 🇨🇦🇺🇸 ♿ Hate crosses borders unless we stop it @abilityrules.bsky.social · 3h

I still don't understand why the Dems didn't have a plan to counter project 2025.

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Billy Jarrett @billjarrett.bsky.social · 1d

Also - Here is Project 2025 broken down into line items. It is currently 48% implemented.

www.project2025.observer/en

Project 2025 Tracker

A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals

www.project2025.observer

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Unusual Suspect 💙🩵🐬🤏🥓🍪🏈🇺🇸 @grumpyfinfan.bsky.social · 1d

Slimy lil Nazis told us exactly what they were going to do and people still don't get it do they?

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